#16199: Create a secure cookie-based session backend
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Reporter: floguy | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: contrib.sessions
Version: SVN | Severity: Normal
Resolution: | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Accepted | Has patch: 1
Needs documentation: 1 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 1 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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Changes (by apollo13):
* needs_better_patch: 0 => 1
* needs_docs: 0 => 1
Comment:
This backend uses signing.dumps which writes the data using JSON, which
difers from the other backends which do use pickle. The docs should point
that out (eg you can put arbitrary data into the session) and probably
also add a warning that the data is just signed and not encrypted…
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