Rust Web Development

9 Add authentication and authorization

This chapter covers

• Understanding the difference between authentication and authorization
• Adding authentication to your web service
• Adapting existing API endpoints to handle authentication
• Using various forms of authentication for your web service
• Using cookies with Warp
• Adding authorization middleware for your routes

Parts 1 and 2 covered the basics of a web service: everything you need to know to add routes, a database, and external APIs, and to observe a running application via logs. Part 3 will help you do everything necessary to ship a Rust web service to production. The three chapters in this last part cover authentication and authorization, deployment, and testing.

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