Working with the Secure Web

So far, we have learned about the web, web content, reverse-engineering techniques, data-finding techniques, a few Python libraries, and a framework that we can employ to access and scrape the desired web content.

Plenty of security-related concerns exist on web platforms today, along with measures to ensure security. Lots of web applications, extensions, and even web-based service providers exist to protect us and our web-based systems against unauthenticated usage and unauthorized access.

The growing use of internet applications and e-commerce activity demands a secure web (or web-based security-enabled features) as a high priority to deal with actions that are harmful or even illegal. We often receive irrelevant emails or spam, containing information that we did not ask for.

It’s quite challenging from a web scraping perspective to deal with such issues, but the concept of ethical hacking makes it more viable, even from an application...