/secure.py

Secure 🔒 headers and cookies for Python web frameworks

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secure.py

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secure.py 🔒 is a lightweight package that adds optional security headers and cookie attributes for Python web frameworks.

Supported Python web frameworks:

aiohttp, Bottle, CherryPy, Django, Falcon, Flask, hug, Masonite, Pyramid, Quart, Responder, Sanic, Starlette, Tornado

Install

pip:

$ pip install secure

Pipenv:

$ pipenv install secure

After installing secure:

from secure import SecureHeaders, SecureCookie

secure_headers = SecureHeaders()
secure_cookie = SecureCookie()

Secure Headers

Example

secure_headers.framework(response)

Default HTTP response headers:

Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Referrer-Policy: no-referrer, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
Cache-control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: 0

Secure Cookie

Example

secure_cookie.framework(response, name="spam", value="eggs")

Default Set-Cookie HTTP response header:

Set-Cookie: spam=eggs; Path=/; secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=lax

Documentation

Please see the full set of documentation at https://secure.readthedocs.io

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