basics of play framework

Kick-start to a Play Framework

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello everyone, welcome to my blog 🙂In this blog we’ll get familiar with some basic concepts of play framework. Play is a full-stack framework with all of the components you need to build a Web Application or a REST service, including: an integrated HTTP server, form handling, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection, a powerful routing mechanism, I18n support, and many more. Why Play? Its Model-View-Controller Continue Reading

Play Basic Authentication

Reading Time: < 1 minute This blog is about Basic Authentication for securing your Play Action or can say rest end point from external inference, It simply uses HTTP header and doesn’t require cookies session and login page for authentication. The credential of the user has to be sent in the header of each HTTP request. HTTP Basic authentication does not provide high-level protection as it just encoded user’s credential with Base64 i.e Continue Reading