Funny Django Session Behaviour

Question

In my settings.py I have SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = True. I am not sure if that is the right place to do that and if need to import anything first. But it wasn't working on Chrome Version 37.0.2062.124 m as it persists the session data. My session-dependent page still opens even after closing and re-opening the browser.

So, I manually cleared the session data (csrftoken, sessionid and Database Data in Chrome's Settings session is no longer working at all. Even if I login and try to open home page in another tab of the same browser (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari) I get redirected to login page.

def index(request): #login page.
    if 'id' in request.session:
        Proceed to Home Page
    if request.method == 'POST':
        Do the needful 
        set request.session['id']
        proceed to Home Page
    return render(request, 'myapp/index.html')

def home(request): #homp page
    if 'id' not in request.session:
        redirect to login page
    return render(request, 'myapp/home.html')

How do I go about making this work?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 30 '14 at 15:11

I think, set_expiry(0) will do the job. here the doc

def index(request): #login page.
  if 'id' in request.session:
      Proceed to Home Page
  if request.method == 'POST':
      Do the needful 
      set request.session['id']
      request.session.set_expiry(0)#<---
      proceed to Home Page
  return render(request, 'myapp/index.html')

Funny Django Session Behaviour

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