On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 19:59 +0000, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Hi Malcolm, > > Thanks for the helpful reply. > > On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:24:29 +1000, Malcolm Tredinnick > <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:42 -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
[...] > >> 3) Get the sessionid. I had to change request.COOKIES['sessionid'] > >> to request.COOKIES[settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME] > > > The default value of settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME has always (and > > remains) "sessionid". However, it's a little more portable to use > > the latter form (request.COOKIES[settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME) in > > your applications, since then they are usable no matter what the > > setting happens to be. A Django application writer is not > > necessarily in control of the settings that will be used when the > > application is installed. > > To summarize, I've changed settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME from their > default value, so this breaks request.COOKIES['sessionid'], and in > this case, using request.COOKIES[settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME) is > preferable, because it will work no matter what the value of > settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME happens to be. Is that a correct summary? Correct. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
