Securing Your FastAPI with API Key Authentication: A Step-by-Step Guide
API key authentication is important for securing APIs that handle sensitive data or perform critical operations. FastAPI is a popular Python web framework that makes it easy to implement API key authentication. In this article, I will show you how to...
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Hello, I have a question about the function verify_api_key()...
Underneath the comment "#verifying extract ..... the prefix", we then verify the corresponding hashed_api_key with the function verify_hashed_key().
Can you explain why this step is necessary / preferred? As I understand, we only reach this step if the secret_key the user sent in the Header() was found in the database, and therefore it seems it should be enough to simply return the corresponding user_id, before we ever run the verify_hashed_key() function.
I would greatly appreciate any insight here, thank you!