Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: django-cookie-sessions
Version: 0.1
Summary: A secure cookie-based session engine for Django.
Home-page: https://github.com/ericflo/django-cookie-sessions
Author: Eric Florenzano
Author-email: floguy@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: ======================
        django-cookie-sessions
        ======================
        
        This is a session backend which uses Django's secure cookie encoding and
        decoding functionality to store the whole session in the cookie, instead of
        talking to some database or cache instance.
        
        
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        Installation
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        Set this in your settings:
        
        SESSION_ENGINE = 'cookiesessions.engine'
        
        
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        Why would I want this?
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        With all of the other Django session backends every request from a user results
        in a request to some backend service, whether it be a database, memcached, or
        something else.  Wouldn't it be better if we could store that information with
        the client itself, and save ourselves the extra requests and latency?
        
        Prior to Django 1.4, it was not possible, because you couldn't trust the user's
        cookie.  Someone could have set their user_id in the cookie to someone else's,
        and suddenly be logged in as that other user.  Thankfully Django 1.4 supports
        securely signed cookies, meaning that we can ensure that the cookie was set by
        us, and only us.
        
        Given that, it's now possible to save ourselves these extra requests and
        latency, as well as retain the strong security that we have come to expect
        from web services built on Django.
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Framework :: Django
