Transparent server-side session support for flask
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Flask-KVSession is an MIT-licensed
<https://github.com/mbr/flask-kvsession/blob/master/LICENSE>
_ server-side
session replacement for Flask <http://flask.pocoo.org>
_'s signed
client-based session management. Instead of storing data on the client, only a
securely generated ID is stored on the client, while the actual session data
resides on the server.
This has two major advantages:
Other things are possible with server side session that are impossible with clients side sessions, like inspecting and manipulating data in absence of the client.
Flask-KVSession uses the simplekv <http://github.com/mbr/simplekv>
-package
for storing session data on a variety of backends, including redis
<http://redis.io>
, memcached <http://memcached.org>
, SQL databases using
SQLAlchemy <http://sqlalchemy.org>
, mongoDB <http://www.mongodb.org/>
_ or
just flat files.
Integration with Flask is seamless, once the extension is loaded for a Flask application, it transparently replaces Flask's own Session management. Any application working with sessions should work the same with Flask-KVSession (if it does not, file a bug!).
Development happens on github <https://github.com/mbr/flask-kvsession/>
,
you can find the documentation on PyPI
<http://pythonhosted.org/Flask-KVSession>
.