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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 - Third Edition
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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 - Third Edition

by Valentin Bojinov
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
178 pages
3h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Securing the Application

Once deployed in production, an application is exposed to a large number of requests. Inevitably, some of them will be malicious. This brings the requirement of granting explicit access permissions only to authenticated users, that is, authenticating a selected number of consumers to have access to your service. Most of the consumers will use the service only for data provisioning. However, a few will need to be able to provide new, or modify the existing, catalog data. To ensure that only appropriate consumers will be able to execute the POST, PUT, and DELETE requests, we will have to introduce the concept of authorization into our application, which will grant only explicitly selected users modification permissions. ...

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