Chapter 8Authenticating Users
Have you ever been to a U2 concert? Whatever you think of the band or its members, one can hardly argue that they haven’t been a commercial success. Even though their concert tickets tend to have assigned seats, hordes of people will line up outside the venue hours before it opens.
If our site were a space in the physical world, that’s pretty much what “outside” it would look like at this point. Unbelievable numbers of people have surely registered for our soon-to-conquer-the-webs site. However, they’re sitting outside the door and still haven’t found what they’re looking for. It’s time to let them in.
Authenticating users will be much simpler than registration was in Chapter 6, Registering Users. We’re working ...
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