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Python Web Development with Sanic

You're reading from   Python Web Development with Sanic An in-depth guide for Python web developers to improve the speed and scalability of web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814416
Length 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stephen Sadowski Stephen Sadowski
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Getting Started with Sanic
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Sanic and Async Frameworks FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Organizing a Project 4. Part 2:Hands-On Sanic
5. Chapter 3: Routing and Intaking HTTP Requests 6. Chapter 4: Ingesting HTTP Data 7. Chapter 5: Building Response Handlers 8. Chapter 6: Operating Outside the Response Handler 9. Chapter 7: Dealing with Security Concerns 10. Chapter 8: Running a Sanic Server 11. Part 3:Putting It All together
12. Chapter 9: Best Practices to Improve Your Web Applications 13. Chapter 10: Implementing Common Use Cases with Sanic 14. Chapter 11: A Complete Real-World Example 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Securing your application with TLS

If you are not encrypting traffic to your web application, you are doing something wrong. In order to protect information while it is in transit between the web browser and your application, it is an absolute necessity to add encryption. The international standard for doing that is known as TLS, which is a protocol for how data can be encrypted between two sources. Often, however, it will be referred to as SSL (which stands for Secure Sockets Layer and is an earlier protocol that TLS replaces) or HTTPS (which stands for HTTP Secure and is technically an implementation of TLS, not TLS itself). Since it is not important for us how it works and we only care that it does what it needs to do, we will use these terms somewhat interchangeably. Therefore, it is safe for you to think about TLS and HTTPS as the same thing.

So, what is it? The simple answer is that you request a pair of keys from some reputable source on the internet. Your next step is to...

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