Handling session cookies and logout functionality
Managing user sessions and implementing logout functionality is crucial for maintaining security and user experience in web applications. This recipe shows how to handle session cookies in FastAPI, from creating cookies upon user login to securely terminating sessions upon logout.
Getting ready
Sessions provide a way to persist user data across requests. When a user logs in, the application creates a session on the server side and sends a session identifier to the client, usually in a cookie. The client sends this identifier back with each request, allowing the server to retrieve the user’s session data.
The recipe will show how to manage cookies for sessions with login and logout functionality.
How to do it...
Cookies in FastAPI are easily managed by the Request and Response object classes. Let’s create a login and a logout endpoints to attaches a session cookie to the response and ignore it from the request...
