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How to Create and Verify HMAC SHA256 API Signatures in Python

Generate and verify HMAC-SHA256 signatures for API requests using Python's hmac, hashlib, and base64 modules.

import hmac
import hashlib
import base64
import json
from datetime import datetime, timezone

def create_api_signature(secret_key: str, method: str, path: str, timestamp: str, body: dict = None) -> str:
    """Create HMAC-SHA256 signature for API request."""
    payload = {
        "method": method.upper(),
        "p…

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How to Mock HTTP Responses to Verify HSTS Headers in Python

This code demonstrates how to use unittest.mock to intercept and capture HTTP response headers, specifically the Strict-Transport-Security header, from a mocked HTTPServer handler for security validation.

hsts mock security

Python

from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
from unittest.mock import patch

class StrictTransportMock(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("Strict-Transport-Security", "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains")
        self.end_headers()
  …

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How to Mock a CORS Allow Origin Whitelist in Python

A decorator-based mock of a CORS middleware that whitelists allowed origins and injects proper Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers while rejecting others.

cors security middleware

Python

from functools import wraps


class MockCORSConfig:
    def __init__(self, allowed_origins):
        self.allowed_origins = allowed_origins

    def is_origin_allowed(self, origin):
        return origin in self.allowed_origins


def cors_middleware(config):
    def decorator(handler):
        @wraps(handler)
        …

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How to Mock a Redis Session Store in Python

An in-memory RedisSessionStore class with TTL-based expiry, get/set/delete/exists methods, and JSON field support—perfect for testing and prototyping without a live Redis.

redis session mock

Python

import time
import json
from collections import defaultdict


class RedisSessionStore:
    """In-memory mock of a Redis-backed session store."""

    def __init__(self, ttl=3600):
        self._data = defaultdict(dict)
        self._expires = {}
        self._ttl = ttl

    def set(self, session_id, field, value):
   …

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