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Assignment 4: Implementing Authentication, Session, and Cookies in Django

Platform-Based Programming (CSGE602022) — Organized by the Faculty of Computer Science Universitas Indonesia, Odd Semester 2025/2026

Assignment Description​

In this assignment, you will be implementing the authentication, session, cookies, as well as several other concepts that you have learned during tutorial sessions.

Assignment Checklist​

The checklist for this assignment is as follows:

  • Implementing register, login, and logout functions that allow user to access the application based on their login/logout status.
  • Create two (2) user accounts each having three (3) dummy datas of the models that was previously made for each account in local.
  • Connect the Product model with the User model.
  • Show the logged in user's detailed information such as username, as well as implement cookies such as last_login on the application's home page.
  • Answer the following questions in the README.md file under the root folder (you can modify the README.md file that you have made previously; add a subtitle for each assignment.).
    • What is Django's AuthenticationForm? Explain its advantages and disadvantages.
    • What is the difference between authentication and authorization? How does Django implement the two concepts?
    • What are the benefits and drawbacks of using sessions and cookies in storing the state of a web application?
    • in web development, is the usage of cookies secure by default, or is there any potential risk that we should be aware of? How does Django handle this problem?
    • Explain how you implemented the checklist above step-by-step (not just following the tutorial).
  • Run add-commit-push to GitHub.

Deadline​

The deadline for Assignment 4 is Wednesday, September 24 2025, at 12:00 PM.