[web2py] Re: "Why I hate Django" by Cal Henderson

2010-07-31 Thread Armin Ronacher
to more than data of > the compromised user. > > Massimo > > On Jul 31, 1:58 am, Armin Ronacher > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > On Jul 31, 2:38 am, Scott wrote:> I do not agree > > with item 1.  Session data should never be stored > > > client-sid

[web2py] Re: "Why I hate Django" by Cal Henderson

2010-07-31 Thread Armin Ronacher
Hi, On Jul 31, 2:38 am, Scott wrote: > I do not agree with item 1.  Session data should never be stored > client-side as it opens a rather large attack vector. Which attack vector exists for signed cookies with a signed timeout compared to just session IDs in cookies? Both can be hijacked by a ma

[web2py:27897] Re: Fwd: My thoughts on web2py

2009-08-03 Thread Armin Ronacher
Hi, > True. but I would not call it a race condition. We timestamp > everything with the time when a request arrives, not when it is > processed, unless specified otherwise (datetime.now() instead of > request.now) True. But that does not make it a better idea. Also, datetime.now() should be co

[web2py:27862] Re: Fwd: My thoughts on web2py

2009-08-02 Thread Armin Ronacher
Hi, Tired so just the most important parts first. On Aug 2, 9:21 pm, mdipierro wrote: > No there is not. Why do you think there is a race condition? If the execution of the module takes longer than, say a few minutes, the timestamp would be off of course. Long running HTTP requests are pretty c

[web2py:27590] Re: irc#web2py

2009-07-30 Thread Armin Ronacher
Hi, On Jul 30, 9:49 am, mdipierro wrote: > Anyway. I just asked you a question and I could use a straight answer: > do you consider yourself a web2py user? No. Neither am I a repoze user yet I watch the development. > I have one more. Which version of web2py are you running? I'm not *running* a

[web2py:27588] Re: irc#web2py

2009-07-30 Thread Armin Ronacher
Hi, On Jul 30, 5:23 am, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > Armin (mistuhiko), > > have you joined the web2py IRC because you are a web2py user or for   > the only purpose of discouraging new users? If you do a /whois mitsuhiko you will find out that I'm in the IRC channel of every Python framework and m