Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Web Authentication in Python
11:15am - 11:55am on Friday, October 6 in PennTop NorthRandall Degges
- Audience Level:
- Beginner
- Slides:
- https://speakerdeck.com/rdegges/almost-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-web-authentication-in-python
- Watch:
- https://youtu.be/oPIPwW7lJ0E
Overview
Want to learn how web authentication works? How your login information is transmitted from a web browser to a web server, and what happens behind the scenes? How authentication protocols actually work?
By the end of this talk, you’ll be intimately familiar with web authentication in Python.
Description
Want to learn how web authentication works? How your login information is transmitted from a web browser to a web server, and what happens from that point onwards? How authentication protocols work behind the scenes?
In this talk, Randall Degges, Developer Advocate at Okta, will walk you through the entire web authentication flow, covering:
- Credential transmission
- Cookies
- Sessions
- Databases
- Best practices
By the end of this talk, you’ll be intimately familiar with web authentication in Python.