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For questions related to Django's session mechanism.

Django provides full support for anonymous sessions. The session framework lets you store and retrieve arbitrary data on a per-site-visitor basis. It stores data on the server side and abstracts the sending and receiving of cookies. Cookies contain a session ID – not the data itself (unless you’re using the cookie based backend or a custom backend).

Reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/topics/http/sessions/

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How to clear all session variables without getting logged out

I am trying to clear all of the session variables but not logout the current user. user = request.session.get('member_id', None) request.session.flush() request.session.modified = True request.session['member_id'] = user request.session.modified =…
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Testing a session variable

I came across Django request.session; I know how to set and test it for a specific value. request.session['name'] = "dummy" and somewhere I check if request.session['name'] == "dummy" : #do something But, now I have to check whether the session…
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Django session expiry?

From django's documentation, I became under the impression that calling: request.session.set_expiry(300) from one view would cause the session to expire after five minutes inactivity; however, this is not the behavior that I'm experiencing in…
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When django session is created

I don't really understand when session is created and per what entity it is created (per ip, per browser, per logged in user). I see in documentation that sessions by default is created per visitor - but what is visitor (browser or ip)?
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How to delete nested session data in Django?

I set data to session with 'cart' key: request.session['cart'] = {'8': ['a', 'b'], '9': ['c', 'd']} Then, I could delete all the session data with 'cart' key: del request.session['cart'] But, I could not delete ['a', 'b'] with '8' key: del…
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Django: any way to avoid querying for request.user on every request?

For my website pretty much every page has a header bar displaying "Welcome, ABC" where "ABC" is the username. That means request.user will be called for every single request resulting in database hits over and over again. But once a user is logged…
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Django sessions for anonymous users

I want to be able to collect basic stats on the use of a webapp by users, both anonymous and logged-in. The commonality here would be that using session ids, I could store data for both logged-in and logged-out users, and still be able to link the…
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How to limit number of concurrent users logging in to same account in Django

My site is a digital marketplace website written in Django. Digital content(text, images, videos) on the site is 'locked' by default. Only users who bought those content can view it. There's a story that certain user(who bought the content) give…
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How to check whether a user is online in django template?

In template, when I use {% if topic.creator.is_authenticated %} Online {% else %} Offline {% endif %} the users turn out to be always online, even when they has signed out a while ago. So I'm wondering how to check the online users correctly?
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How to capture the session key for an anonymous user (django 1.6)

Am trying to keep track of AnonymousUsers by their session information (if possible). In older versions of Django, I could do something like: def my_view(request): # in case the user wasn't logged in, create/save a session if not…
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django Sessions are not maintaing in an iframe

I am creating a conversational chatbot using django . And To maintain the flow of the chat in chatbot , i am using django sessions . But when i use the link of the chatbot in an iframe , it doesn't store any of the session and flow breaks down. I…
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Performance comparison of using django signed cookie session over django db + cache based session?

Django 1.4 offers several ways to maintain django sessions : My viewpoint on using : i) cache only : Not preferable, users sessions may get purged out of memcache. ii) Db + cache (cached_db): Preferable , simple and secure solution. iii) Signed…
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Where does Django store sessions?

I have this code in my project that assigns a unique id to an anomymous user and saves it in a session: user_id = str(uuid.uuid4())[:5] request.session['nonuserid'] = user_id Documentation says that sessions are stored in my database. I thought it…
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Django user sessions with AWS Load Balancer stickiness turned off

I'm using AWS Elastic Beanstalk with EC2 servers behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). I have "sticky sessions" on the ELB enabled because that's the only way I can get django user sessions to work correctly. However, during times of peak traffic,…
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AttributeError: 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'session'

I keep getting this error at random times and whenever I touch the django.wsgi file, it gets fixed only to happen again after a few hours. I'm lost as to what to do. my middleware_classes is as follows: MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( …
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