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Dan Watson  
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 More options Sep 25 2009, 7:02 am
From: Dan Watson <dcwat...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:02:56 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, Sep 25 2009 7:02 am
Subject: Re: Adding signing (and signed cookies) to Django core
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On Sep 24, 3:46 pm, Simon Willison <si...@simonwillison.net> wrote:

> > 1) request.unsign_cookie('foo') -- This breaks the parallelism with
> > existing cookies.  Sometimes we'll be doing request.COOKIES['foo'] and
> > sometimes we'll be doing request.unsign_cookie('foo').

> If we were going to do that, it would make sense to NOT have set_cookie
> (... sign=True) as the API for setting one. We could achieve
> parallelism with something like this:

> response.sign_cookie('key', 'value')
> ...
> value = request.unsign_cookie('key')

> You can still read request.COOKIES directly, but you'll get the raw,
> signed value. That API doesn't look too ugly to me.

What about having something like:

request.get_cookie(key, signed=True)

that would fall back to returning request.COOKIES[key] when
signed=False? It creates a second way to access request cookies, but
introduces parallelism with the response.set_cookie method.

Dan


 
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