pyramid.session

signed_serialize(data, secret)[source]

Serialize any pickleable structure (data) and sign it using the secret (must be a string). Return the serialization, which includes the signature as its first 40 bytes. The signed_deserialize method will deserialize such a value.

This function is useful for creating signed cookies. For example:

cookieval = signed_serialize({'a':1}, 'secret')
response.set_cookie('signed_cookie', cookieval)
signed_deserialize(serialized, secret, hmac=<module 'hmac' from '/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/pyramid/envs/1.6-branch/lib/python3.4/hmac.py'>)[source]

Deserialize the value returned from signed_serialize. If the value cannot be deserialized for any reason, a ValueError exception will be raised.

This function is useful for deserializing a signed cookie value created by signed_serialize. For example:

cookieval = request.cookies['signed_cookie']
data = signed_deserialize(cookieval, 'secret')
check_csrf_token(request, token='csrf_token', header='X-CSRF-Token', raises=True)[source]

Check the CSRF token in the request's session against the value in request.params.get(token) or request.headers.get(header). If a token keyword is not supplied to this function, the string csrf_token will be used to look up the token in request.params. If a header keyword is not supplied to this function, the string X-CSRF-Token will be used to look up the token in request.headers.

If the value supplied by param or by header doesn't match the value supplied by request.session.get_csrf_token(), and raises is True, this function will raise an pyramid.exceptions.BadCSRFToken exception. If the values differ and raises is False, this function will return False. If the CSRF check is successful, this function will return True unconditionally.

Note that using this function requires that a session factory is configured.

New in version 1.4a2.

SignedCookieSessionFactory(secret, cookie_name='session', max_age=None, path='/', domain=None, secure=False, httponly=False, set_on_exception=True, timeout=1200, reissue_time=0, hashalg='sha512', salt='pyramid.session.', serializer=None)[source]

New in version 1.5.

Configure a session factory which will provide signed cookie-based sessions. The return value of this function is a session factory, which may be provided as the session_factory argument of a pyramid.config.Configurator constructor, or used as the session_factory argument of the pyramid.config.Configurator.set_session_factory() method.

The session factory returned by this function will create sessions which are limited to storing fewer than 4000 bytes of data (as the payload must fit into a single cookie).

Parameters:

secret
A string which is used to sign the cookie. The secret should be at least as long as the block size of the selected hash algorithm. For sha512 this would mean a 128 bit (64 character) secret. It should be unique within the set of secret values provided to Pyramid for its various subsystems (see Admonishment Against Secret-Sharing).
hashalg
The HMAC digest algorithm to use for signing. The algorithm must be supported by the hashlib library. Default: 'sha512'.
salt
A namespace to avoid collisions between different uses of a shared secret. Reusing a secret for different parts of an application is strongly discouraged (see Admonishment Against Secret-Sharing). Default: 'pyramid.session.'.
cookie_name
The name of the cookie used for sessioning. Default: 'session'.
max_age
The maximum age of the cookie used for sessioning (in seconds). Default: None (browser scope).
path
The path used for the session cookie. Default: '/'.
domain
The domain used for the session cookie. Default: None (no domain).
secure
The 'secure' flag of the session cookie. Default: False.
httponly
Hide the cookie from Javascript by setting the 'HttpOnly' flag of the session cookie. Default: False.
timeout
A number of seconds of inactivity before a session times out. If None then the cookie never expires. This lifetime only applies to the value within the cookie. Meaning that if the cookie expires due to a lower max_age, then this setting has no effect. Default: 1200.
reissue_time

The number of seconds that must pass before the cookie is automatically reissued as the result of accessing the session. The duration is measured as the number of seconds since the last session cookie was issued and 'now'. If this value is 0, a new cookie will be reissued on every request accessing the session. If None then the cookie's lifetime will never be extended.

A good rule of thumb: if you want auto-expired cookies based on inactivity: set the timeout value to 1200 (20 mins) and set the reissue_time value to perhaps a tenth of the timeout value (120 or 2 mins). It's nonsensical to set the timeout value lower than the reissue_time value, as the ticket will never be reissued. However, such a configuration is not explicitly prevented.

Default: 0.

set_on_exception
If True, set a session cookie even if an exception occurs while rendering a view. Default: True.
serializer
An object with two methods: loads and dumps. The loads method should accept bytes and return a Python object. The dumps method should accept a Python object and return bytes. A ValueError should be raised for malformed inputs. If a serializer is not passed, the pyramid.session.PickleSerializer serializer will be used.
UnencryptedCookieSessionFactoryConfig(secret, timeout=1200, cookie_name='session', cookie_max_age=None, cookie_path='/', cookie_domain=None, cookie_secure=False, cookie_httponly=False, cookie_on_exception=True, signed_serialize=<function signed_serialize>, signed_deserialize=<function signed_deserialize>)[source]

Deprecated since version 1.5: Use pyramid.session.SignedCookieSessionFactory() instead. Caveat: Cookies generated using SignedCookieSessionFactory are not compatible with cookies generated using UnencryptedCookieSessionFactory, so existing user session data will be destroyed if you switch to it.

Configure a session factory which will provide unencrypted (but signed) cookie-based sessions. The return value of this function is a session factory, which may be provided as the session_factory argument of a pyramid.config.Configurator constructor, or used as the session_factory argument of the pyramid.config.Configurator.set_session_factory() method.

The session factory returned by this function will create sessions which are limited to storing fewer than 4000 bytes of data (as the payload must fit into a single cookie).

Parameters:

secret
A string which is used to sign the cookie.
timeout
A number of seconds of inactivity before a session times out.
cookie_name
The name of the cookie used for sessioning.
cookie_max_age
The maximum age of the cookie used for sessioning (in seconds). Default: None (browser scope).
cookie_path
The path used for the session cookie.
cookie_domain
The domain used for the session cookie. Default: None (no domain).
cookie_secure
The 'secure' flag of the session cookie.
cookie_httponly
The 'httpOnly' flag of the session cookie.
cookie_on_exception
If True, set a session cookie even if an exception occurs while rendering a view.
signed_serialize
A callable which takes more or less arbitrary Python data structure and a secret and returns a signed serialization in bytes. Default: signed_serialize (using pickle).
signed_deserialize
A callable which takes a signed and serialized data structure in bytes and a secret and returns the original data structure if the signature is valid. Default: signed_deserialize (using pickle).
BaseCookieSessionFactory(serializer, cookie_name='session', max_age=None, path='/', domain=None, secure=False, httponly=False, timeout=1200, reissue_time=0, set_on_exception=True)[source]

New in version 1.5.

Configure a session factory which will provide cookie-based sessions. The return value of this function is a session factory, which may be provided as the session_factory argument of a pyramid.config.Configurator constructor, or used as the session_factory argument of the pyramid.config.Configurator.set_session_factory() method.

The session factory returned by this function will create sessions which are limited to storing fewer than 4000 bytes of data (as the payload must fit into a single cookie).

Parameters:

serializer
An object with two methods: loads and dumps. The loads method should accept bytes and return a Python object. The dumps method should accept a Python object and return bytes. A ValueError should be raised for malformed inputs.
cookie_name
The name of the cookie used for sessioning. Default: 'session'.
max_age
The maximum age of the cookie used for sessioning (in seconds). Default: None (browser scope).
path
The path used for the session cookie. Default: '/'.
domain
The domain used for the session cookie. Default: None (no domain).
secure
The 'secure' flag of the session cookie. Default: False.
httponly
Hide the cookie from Javascript by setting the 'HttpOnly' flag of the session cookie. Default: False.
timeout
A number of seconds of inactivity before a session times out. If None then the cookie never expires. This lifetime only applies to the value within the cookie. Meaning that if the cookie expires due to a lower max_age, then this setting has no effect. Default: 1200.
reissue_time

The number of seconds that must pass before the cookie is automatically reissued as the result of a request which accesses the session. The duration is measured as the number of seconds since the last session cookie was issued and 'now'. If this value is 0, a new cookie will be reissued on every request accessing the session. If None then the cookie's lifetime will never be extended.

A good rule of thumb: if you want auto-expired cookies based on inactivity: set the timeout value to 1200 (20 mins) and set the reissue_time value to perhaps a tenth of the timeout value (120 or 2 mins). It's nonsensical to set the timeout value lower than the reissue_time value, as the ticket will never be reissued. However, such a configuration is not explicitly prevented.

Default: 0.

set_on_exception
If True, set a session cookie even if an exception occurs while rendering a view. Default: True.
class PickleSerializer(protocol=4)[source]

A serializer that uses the pickle protocol to dump Python data to bytes.

This is the default serializer used by Pyramid.

protocol may be specified to control the version of pickle used. Defaults to pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL.