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Authentication, Part 4

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The customer can login, but now what? We need to update the UI and make sure they can watch the videos they've selected.

Setting Up Gravatar

We have John the Placeholder in now - let's formalize this:

  • Choosing when, and where, to create an avatar using gravatar
  • Conditional display
  • Showing the login

Access Rules

When our user is logged in we need a way to know if they can watch a given video:

  • Creating an API call for authorization
  • Free videos are always watchable by anyone, logged in or not

Oh Yeah... Logging Out

What happens when a user logs out? I was supposed to do this a few episodes ago...

  • Add a logout button