Understanding access and authorization in web application development
Access and authorization in web application development is the process of controlling who has access to specific resources and actions within a web application. As a developer, you will want to design and ensure that users can only perform actions they are authorized to perform and access resources they are authorized to access in a web application.
As discussed earlier, authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a user. Authorization is the process of determining what a user is allowed to do within a web application. When you combine these two mechanisms, you have a system that ensures that only authorized users can access sensitive information and perform certain actions within a web application.
Several different types of access control methods can be used in web application development. We will discuss some of them and make specific reference to how Flask can handle access and authorization...
