Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

Security considerations

As we all know, when it comes to online services, security is characterized, above all, as a factor that can make or break a particular product. To this end, we need to discuss some potential security issues that may arise when building a project such as Links 'R' Us and devise strategies for dealing with them.

Our analysis operates under the premise that you should never trust the client, in this case, the user interacting with Links 'R' Us. Should our project become successful, it will inadvertently attract the attention of malicious actors that will, at some point, try to locate and exploit security holes in our system.

One of the use cases that I presented earlier involves the user submitting a URL that the service ...