security

In this post, we will learn how to authenticate users using session cookies in a Node.js server application. When a user logs into our application, we need to know who they are across all our HTTP methods and routes. One way to do this is to store the users “session”. A session is started once a user logs in, and expires some time after that. Each logged in user has some reference to the session (called a cookie), which they send with their requests....

In this post we will see how we can implement OAuth2 authentication in a Go web application. We will create a working website that can allow a user to sign in using Github authentication. If you just want to see the code, you can view the full example on Github How OAuth2 Works Let’s take a brief look at the OAuth protocol before we jump into implementation. If you’ve ever seen a dialog like this, then you’ve probably used OAuth before:...

OAuth2 is an authentication protocol that is used to authenticate and authorize users in an application by using another service provider. This post will go through how to build a Node.js application to implement the OAuth2 protocol. If you just want to see the code, you can view it on Github How OAuth2 Works Let’s take a brief look at the OAuth protocol before we jump into implementation. If you’ve ever seen a dialog like this, then you’ve probably used OAuth before:...

In this post, we will learn how to authenticate users using session cookies in a Golang server application. When a user logs into our application, we need to know who they are across all our HTTP methods and routes. One way to do this is to store the users “session”. A session is started once a user logs in, and expires some time after that. Each logged in user has some reference to the session (called a cookie), which they send with their requests....