I'm using Beaker also to store the logged in user id in a cookie, which is a user id retrieved from the database. But the security is not my first priority and I'm not very familiar with sessions as they are used in web applications.
Basically what I do is, authenticate the user and store the authenticated user id in a cookie. you can look at my authentication module in: http://code.google.com/p/stalker/ it is not a finished project, so it may not work as expected... E.Ozgur Yilmaz Lead Technical Director eoyilmaz.blogspot.com On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Pierre A <[email protected]>wrote: > I don't know exactly what you are trying to achieve, but when I see > session and python in the same sentence, beaker comes to mind. > I've only used it with wsgi apps, but the doc says that it works with > stand alone applications. > http://beaker.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html > > For authentication and authorization, you could have a look at repoze.who > ( http://docs.repoze.org/who/2.0/ ), but it's aimed for wsgi applications. > Perhaps you could hack it: > http://docs.repoze.org/who/2.0/use_cases.html#api-only-use-cases > > -- > view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > change your subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe > -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
