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From: Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>
To: rack-devel <rack-devel@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Should we continue to support session in params?
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:59:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimpY6O3Wm31qNWU8PwsR5MryUyDcZ6LRLiOdnx_@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <979DB45B-64D5-40F9-9592-F0CC0126E007@gmail.com>

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Unfortunately, this probably exists to support Flash file uploads, which
can't pass cookies due to an ancient, still unfixed API bug.

Yehuda Katz
Architect | Strobe
(ph) 718.877.1325


On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:03 AM, James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com> wrote:

> There's an option in the sessions infrastructure to support sessions via
> params. It's untested anywhere except in the memcache session specs. I'd
> like to remove it as it's nothing but an optional security hole. I can't
> imagine anyone using this for anything sane, but I'm checking here in case
> I'm wrong.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-03 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-03 17:03 Should we continue to support session in params? James Tucker
2010-10-03 17:59 ` Yehuda Katz [this message]
2010-10-03 18:07   ` James Tucker

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