[Flask] Session question

[Ford]

Looks like you hit the nail on the head.

According to Flask-Sessionstore's github repo, it's a hard fork of
Flask-Session. See https://github.com/mcrowson/flask-sessionstore

Looks like Flask-Session is no longer being maintained, hence the fork.

Anthony Ford

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:05 PM Richard Hector <richard at walnut.gen.nz>
wrote:

> Thanks Andrew,
>
> Now that I know that these exist, I think I'll continue with the
> tutorial, and get back to this issue later.
>
> Both of those seem to have nearly identical documentation - is one a
> fork of the other?
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
> On 17/04/20 2:49 pm, Ford wrote:
> > Flask uses cryptographically signed cookies, which prevents the user
> > from being able to modify the cookies. It would however be ill-advised
> > to store any personally identifiable information or anything critical.
> >
> > There are server-side options available as extensions, such as
> > Flask-Session
> > (https://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Session/,
> https://hackersandslackers.com/managing-user-session-variables-with-flask-sessions-and-redis/
> ),
> > and Flask-Sessionstore
> > (https://flask-sessionstore.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
> >
> > Anthony Ford
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:18 PM Richard Hector <richard at walnut.gen.nz
> > <mailto:richard at walnut.gen.nz>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi all, I hope this is the right place to ask.
> >
> >     I've been doing the Flask Mega Tutorial.
> >
> >     It appears that sessions are stored in a cookie/cookies in the
> browser,
> >     rather than just setting a random session id and storing in the
> database
> >     or whatever. I was under the impression (though I'm a web development
> >     newbie) that this wasn't considered best practice. Is there a way to
> >     change this behaviour, to store the session info server-side instead?
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >     Richard
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