Chapter 16. Managing Sessions and Cookies
What You’ll Learn in This Hour
- How Django’s session framework works
- How to configure the session manager
- How to use Django’s test cookies to verify that the browser supports cookies
- How to add and retrieve session data using the
sessionattribute of theHttpRequestobject - How to set and retrieve cookies using the
HttpRequestobject
In the past couple of hours, we have covered implementing users and authentication. Now it is time to discuss implementing a session framework that will allow you to provide a persistent state for user data.
As a user browses the website and does various activities, you may want to retain certain data about that user’s activities. Generally this is accomplished by setting cookies ...
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