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24th September 2009 - Link Blog

Adding signing (and signed cookies) to Django core. I’ve been increasing my participation in Django recently—here’s my proposal for adding signing and signed cookies to Django, which I’d personally like to see ship as part of Django 1.2.

Posted 24th September 2009 at 7:31 pm

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