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Go: Building Web Applications
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Go: Building Web Applications

by Nathan Kozyra, Mat Ryer
August 2016
Beginner to intermediate
665 pages
14h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 9. Security

In the previous chapter we looked at how to store information generated by our application as it works as well as adding unit tests to our suite to ensure that the application behaves as we expect it to and diagnose errors when it does not.

In that chapter, we did not add a lot of functionality to our blog app; so let's get back to that now. We'll also extend some of the logging and testing functionality from this chapter into our new features.

Till now, we have been working on the skeleton of a web application that implements some basic inputs and outputs of blog data and user-submitted comments. Just like any public networked server, ours is subject to a variety of attack vectors.

None of these are unique to Go, but we have ...

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