From onlinejudge95 at gmail.com Mon May 18 16:06:08 2020 From: onlinejudge95 at gmail.com (onlinejudge95) Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 01:36:08 +0530 Subject: [Flask] Session question In-Reply-To: References: <214c462d-a934-4cc8-fc05-f5966160969e@walnut.gen.nz> <344cceb3-3069-f7fb-bebe-d674039df523@walnut.gen.nz> Message-ID: On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 10:08 PM Ford wrote: > 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. > It's the other way round, Flask-Session is the maintained one and Flask-Sessionstore not > Anthony Ford > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:05 PM Richard Hector > 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 > > > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Flask mailing list >> > Flask at python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/flask >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ > Flask mailing list > Flask at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/flask > -- Thanks, Mayank Pathak -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From onlinejudge95 at gmail.com Thu May 28 00:52:24 2020 From: onlinejudge95 at gmail.com (onlinejudge95) Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 10:22:24 +0530 Subject: [Flask] Flaskcon event - CFP Open Message-ID: Greetings, I am a member of the Bangalore Python User Group (BangPyPers) and one of the organizers of the community-run Flaskcon event (https://flaskcon.com) We'd like to extend the invitation to The Mailing List. The call for papers is open! We'd be grateful if you can pass the message. We opted for a free conference but on the other hand, we rely on the community to get the word out. Anything, just let us know! -- Thanks, Bangalore Python User Group -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: