DJANGO AUTHENTICATION FRAMEWORK EXAM LATEST UPDATE Django Auth Framework - ANSWER Built-in framework for user authentication, sessions, permissions, and user groups. Authentication - ANSWER Process of verifying the identity of a user. Sessions - ANSWER Mechanism to store user-specific information across multipl e requests. AuthenticationMiddleware - ANSWER Associates users with requests usi ng sessions. SessionMiddleware - ANSWER Handles the current session across requests. Permissions - ANSWER Flags for users or groups to perform certain actions. Log in - ANSWER Handles login form and logs in a user. Log out - ANSWER Logs out a user. Password change - ANSWER Handles a form to change the user's password. PasswordChangeDoneView - ANSWER The success view after the successful password change. Password reset - ANSWER Allows users to reset their password. PasswordResetDoneView - ANSWER Informs users that an email with a password reset link has been sent. PasswordResetConfirmView - ANSWER Allows users to set a new passwo rd. PasswordResetCompleteView - ANSWER The success view after successfully resetting the password. Generic User - ANSWER A user model with fields like username, password, em ail, first_name, last_name, and is_active. Login view - ANSWER Presents the user with a login form, authenticates the user, and starts an authenticated session. Action views - ANSWER Views that act, such as changing a password. Action_done/Action_complete views - ANSWER Views that provide feed back after completing an action. Directories in templates subdirectory - ANSWER account: user account-related templates, registration: user registration templates. @login_required decorator - ANSWER Checks if the current user is authenticated. Password change flow - ANSWER User initiates password change, the server processes the change, and the user is notified. Extending generic User model - ANSWER Create a custom user model by subclassing AbstractUser or AbstractBaseUser. Custom clean method - ANSWER A method in a form that cleans the value or raises form validation errors for a specific field. on_delete=CASCADE - ANSWER Deletes related objects when the referenced object is deleted. Messages framework - ANSWER Displays one-time notifications to users. Levels/types of messages - ANSWER success(), info(), warning(), error(), debug() Custom auth backend - ANSWER Defines authenticate() and get_user() methods for custom authentication. Developer Tools - ANSWER Browser tools for debugging and developing web applications. ALLOWED_HOSTS - ANSWER List of domain names or IP addresses from which the Django application allows incoming requests. HTTPS - ANSWER Secure version of HTTP for transmitting data between a user's web browser and a website. SSL/TLS - ANSWER Protocols for secure communication over a computer network. Security certificate - ANSWER Issued by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) to secure data transfer. runserver_plus - ANSWER Extension of Django's runserver command wit h additional features like SSL/TLS support. Social Auth Pipeline - ANSWER A series of functions executed during authentication, association, or disconnection flows. Creating Developer Accounts - ANSWER Steps to create developer accounts for social platforms. db_index=True - ANSWER Creates an index in the database for the specified model field. Indexing - ANSWER Technique to improve data retrieval speed in a database ta ble. Overriding save() method - ANSWER Customizing the behavior of saving a mod el instance to the database. HiddenInput widget - ANSWER A form widget that renders an input elem ent with type='hidden'. get_absolute_url - ANSWER Method that defines the canonical URL for an object. Bookmarklet - ANSWER A bookmark that contains JavaScript code to extend a browser's functionalit y. JavaScript - ANSWER A programming language used for building interactive and dynamic web pages. Launcher script - ANSWER A script that dynamically loads and updates bookmarklet code. Content Delivery Network (CDN) - ANSWER A distributed network of servers
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