[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, > > I was just wondering if / how would it be possible to create secure > sessions for a website using Python CGI... I thought of using cookies, > and things looked promising for a while; I could login through a form > which pointed to a cgi script which created sent the user cookies, but > I found that when a script to detect the cookies was run through a > server side include line in the html, it couldn't get any cookies, but > it would work fine when run directly through the browser (which is > useless to me). > > If anybody could help with this it would be great. Python is the only > programming language that I'm relatively comfortable in at the moment, > so using the usual PHP or Javascript just isn't an option for me > unfortunately. > > GazaM >
For what it's worth, mod_python supports sessions: http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/pyapi-sess.html I've been playing with them recently, and they seem to work. :-) -Kirk McDonald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list