March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
394 pages
11h 4m
English
Authentication and authorization are closely connected and sometimes confused. Authentication is about verifying the identity of a user to the database. An example of authentication is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), where the web server verifies its identity—that it is who it claims to be—to the user.
Authorization is about determining what actions a user can take on a resource. In the next sections, we will discuss authentication and authorization with these definitions in mind.
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