bhanu13 / connectme

A Tiny Scalable Blog | Python

ConnectMe | A Tiny Scalable Blog

ConnectMe is a simple blog that implements user registration and session management securely with a focus on scalability and code reusability.

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Features

• User signup, login and logout pages.
• Ability to add a new post or delete existing posts.
• View posts by all users.
• Generates a shareable permalink on Facebook for each new post.
• View all post data in JSON.

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Scalibility

• Robust user session verification through cryptographically hashed cookies.
• Secure user password storage using a salt on SHA256. Refer to _main.py and hash_secure.py
• Avails post data in JSON for use by other webapps. Refer to /.json
• Uses Memcache to minimize the number of DB Queries.

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Reusability

• web_template.py - A template for any new web application on GAE.
• verify.py - Includes useful user information verification functions.
• hash_secure.py - Useful functions for cookie authentication using HMAC and encrypted password generation and verification using SHA256.

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Built Using

• webapp2
• Google App Engine and Data Store
• Memcache
• Jinja2
• Bootstrap

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Future Ideas

- Add CAPTCHA during user registration - Add a User Profile Page to update user information. - Infinite Possibilites

Please shoot me an email for any questions or comments. You can check out a sample website here.

Author - bagarwa2