Summary
In this chapter, we discussed what we were missing in the previous chapter where we implemented RESTful web service endpoints in Lumen. We discussed throttling (Request Rate Limiting) to prevent DoS or brute force. We also implemented token-based authentication using some packages. Note that we only secured endpoints here, which we didn't want to leave accessible without user login. If there are other endpoints that you don't want to have public access to but they don't need users to log in, then you can use either some sort of key or basic authentication on those endpoints.
Other than that, we discussed and used transformers that are a sort of view layer for web services. Then, we briefly discussed encryption and SSL importance and ...
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