Move login data into a separate session cookie
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To facilitate #166, Lastuser in production now has the following in its settings.py
:
#: Session cookie domain
SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN = '.hasgeek.com'
This has the effect of setting the session
cookie on *.hasgeek.com
, thereby also making it available on the parent domain and all subdomains. As the cookie is now shared across apps, we need to be careful about a few additional things:
- The
SECRET_KEY
setting in all subdomain apps must match. - Session variables like
lastuser_userid
andlastuser_sessionid
must be used in exactly the same way in all apps. - All app-specific session variables, including in the Lastuser app, must have a unique prefix to prevent conflicts.
To make these easier to manage, perhaps Lastuser and Flask-Lastuser should both switch to using a different cookie, perhaps named lastuser
, using the same encrypted session mechanism as Flask's session cookie. This reduces the scope for conflict. Lastuser and Flask-Lastuser can look for special config for these in the LASTUSER_SECRET_KEY
and LASTUSER_COOKIE_DOMAIN
config variables, falling back to the default values.