On 8/7/06, Manlio Perillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jean-Paul Calderone ha scritto:

> Feel free to do this, but it's not the recommended way to address this
> use case in twisted.web or Nevow.  The version of guard which is included
> in releases of either won't work this way, nor will the documentation
> recommend this approach.
>

Yes.
And guard resolves the problem requiring that even anonymous users have
a session.

This is true. However, I think you're very confused in thinking that this is not necessary.

Guard is not only doing a not necessary thing (page with cookies can
have problems with cache, AFAIK) but this create a potential (very rare
indeed) security problem since an anonymous user gain a valid session ID
that can be "authenticated" by a valid user (session fixation).

First: What "problems with cache" are you referring to?

How do you expect to be able to tell different anonymous users apart without sessions and session IDs?

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