[Flask] Session question

[Richard Hector]

Thanks Andrew,

Now that I know that these exist, I think I'll continue with the
tutorial, and get back to this issue later.

Both of those seem to have nearly identical documentation - is one a
fork of the other?

Cheers,
Richard

On 17/04/20 2:49 pm, Ford wrote:
> Flask uses cryptographically signed cookies, which prevents the user
> from being able to modify the cookies. It would however be ill-advised
> to store any personally identifiable information or anything critical.
> 
> There are server-side options available as extensions, such as
> Flask-Session
> (https://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Session/, https://hackersandslackers.com/managing-user-session-variables-with-flask-sessions-and-redis/),
> and Flask-Sessionstore
> (https://flask-sessionstore.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
> 
> Anthony Ford
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:18 PM Richard Hector <richard at walnut.gen.nz
> <mailto:richard at walnut.gen.nz>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all, I hope this is the right place to ask.
> 
>     I've been doing the Flask Mega Tutorial.
> 
>     It appears that sessions are stored in a cookie/cookies in the browser,
>     rather than just setting a random session id and storing in the database
>     or whatever. I was under the impression (though I'm a web development
>     newbie) that this wasn't considered best practice. Is there a way to
>     change this behaviour, to store the session info server-side instead?
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Richard
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