Take a look at the session middleware and its settings. Specifically these two: SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has … Read more
If you set your session cookie domain to start with a “.” character it will let you handle wildcard sub-domains and share a session cookie (login session) across multiple subdomains. In settings.py: SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN=”.stackoverflow.com” The above would allow a cookie to be shared across user1.stackoverflow.com and user2.stackoverflow.com. If you really do want the url’s to be … Read more
For setting session variable: request.session[‘idempresa’] = profile.idempresa For getting session Data: if ‘idempresa’ in request.session: idempresa = request.session[‘idempresa’]
The client object of the django testing framework makes possible to touch the session. Look at http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/?from=olddocs#django.test.client.Client.session for details Be careful : To modify the session and then save it, it must be stored in a variable first (because a new SessionStore is created every time this property is accessed) I think something like this … Read more
request.session.session_key Note the key will only exist if there is a session, no key, no session. You can use this to test if a session exists. If you want to create a session, call create.
Django does NOT provide automatic purging. There is however a handy command available to help you do it manually: Django docs: Clearing the session store python manage.py clearsessions
For setting session variable: request.session[‘idempresa’] = profile.idempresa For getting session Data: if ‘idempresa’ in request.session: idempresa = request.session[‘idempresa’]
There are two parameters to expire sessions, SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE and SESSION_COOKIE_AGE. If you want to expire in 5 minutes yours settings should like as: SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = False SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 5 * 60 To combine both learn how do it writing your custom middleware “Is there a way to combine behavior of SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE and SESSION_COOKIE_AGE”