Add example for retrieving userinfo in a Flask app (#470)

* Add example for retrieving userinfo in a Flask app * Better formatting Co-authored-by: Jacob Woffenden <[email protected]> * More formatting Co-authored-by: Jacob Woffenden <[email protected]> * Update source/documentation/apps/rshiny-app.md Co-authored-by: Jacob Woffenden <[email protected]> * Fix typo * Fix codeblock * Fix codeblock --------- Co-authored-by: Jacob Woffenden <[email protected]>
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+You can also access `userinfo` in a similar manner from a Python based application. You will need to access the raw cookie string and pass it as a header in the request to the `userinfo` endpoint.
+
+For example in a Flask application, where you have access to a `request` object, you can retrieve the raw cookie string from the header as below:
+
+```python
+cookie = request.headers.get("Cookie")
+```
+
+You can then use the [`requests` library](https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to call the `userinfo` endpoint, passing the cookie as a `"App-Cookie"` header as below:
+
+```python
+requests.get(
+    "http://localhost:3001/userinfo",
+    headers={"App-Cookie": cookie},
+)
+```
+
 ##### Example response
 
 ```json