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Web Development with Julia and Genie

You're reading from   Web Development with Julia and Genie A hands-on guide to high-performance server-side web development with the Julia programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811132
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ivo Balbaert Ivo Balbaert
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Developing Web Apps with Julia
2. Chapter 1: Julia Programming Overview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Using Julia Standard Web Packages 4. Chapter 3: Applying Julia in Various Use Cases on the Web 5. Part 2: Using the Genie Rapid Web Development Framework
6. Chapter 4: Building an MVC ToDo App 7. Chapter 5: Adding a REST API 8. Chapter 6: Deploying Genie Apps in Production 9. Chapter 7: Adding Authentication to Our App 10. Chapter 8: Developing Interactive Data Dashboards with Genie 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Updating our tests

Excellent, our application is now protected against unauthorized access. However, we need to make sure that our tests are updated as well. If we run our test suite now, we will see that all the tests are failing because they are also unable to access authentication-protected pages and API endpoints. So, we need to allow our tests to authenticate as well.

Enabling basic authentication

How can we authenticate our tests – and non-human users in general? We want to allow automation and scripts, like our tests, to access specific user data without having to go through the login process. There are a few methods for authenticating non-human users, and one of the most common and simplest is to use the so-called basic authentication. This is a standard HTTP authentication method, which allows us to restrict access to our server using the HTTP Basic schema.

To put it very simply, the Basic schema allows us to send a username and password in the HTTP request...

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