Hands-On Web Scraping with Python - Second Edition

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Working with the Secure Web

So far, we have learned about the web, web content, reverse-engineering techniques, data-finding techniques, a few Python libraries, and a framework that we can employ to access and scrape the desired web content.

Plenty of security-related concerns exist on web platforms today, along with measures to ensure security. Lots of web applications, extensions, and even web-based service providers exist to protect us and our web-based systems against unauthenticated usage and unauthorized access.

The growing use of internet applications and e-commerce activity demands a secure web (or web-based security-enabled features) as a high priority to deal with actions that are harmful or even illegal. We often receive irrelevant ...