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| From | Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: working with cookies |
| Date | 2015-10-28 08:25 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <n0q0ov$gup$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 05:11:01 -0700, Jeremy Leonard wrote: > I haven't learned how to do that yet. I see in the documentation for > Python that there is a Cookie Jar class, but that seems to be more on > the client side (unless I am reading it incorrectly). I'm looking for > help in learning how to do that. Note that controlling what browsers do with cookies isn't always simple or easy. In theory, if you don't set an explicit expiry on a cookie the browser should forget it when the browser closes. In other cases, the browser should delete the cookie when the expiry time passes. However, my experience has taught me that stale cookies may get presented, and browsers may forget about cookies you think shouldn't have expired. At the end of the day, a cookie is a fragment of data that you are placing in the control of your website visitors, never forget that. Rather than storing server side data in the cookie, use the cookie as a key to the server side data (ie as a session identifier), and generate the cookie value in a way that makes session hijacking by manipulating the cookie value difficult (your cookie value range needs a few more orders of magnitude than your maximum simultaneous user sessions value). -- Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com
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working with cookies Jeremy Leonard <jrmy.lnrd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 12:26 -0700
Re: working with cookies John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-10-26 20:16 +0000
Re: working with cookies Jeremy Leonard <jrmy.lnrd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 15:57 -0700
Re: working with cookies John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-10-26 23:14 +0000
Re: working with cookies Jeremy Leonard <jrmy.lnrd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 17:30 -0700
Re: working with cookies John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-10-27 01:41 +0000
Re: working with cookies Jeremy Leonard <jrmy.lnrd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 05:11 -0700
Re: working with cookies Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 08:25 +0000
Re: working with cookies Jeremy Leonard <jrmy.lnrd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 12:31 -0700
Re: working with cookies John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-10-28 19:47 +0000
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