max_age for cookies doesn't work in safari (and perhaps not IE)

[mark@…]

The max_age setting for a cookie is ignored in safari. set_cookie needs to support expires.

[mark@…]

here is a patch to allow expired to be used as well

Index: django/utils/httpwrappers.py
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--- django/utils/httpwrappers.py (revision 640)
+++ django/utils/httpwrappers.py (working copy)
@@ -168,9 +168,9 @@

return True

return False

• def set_cookie(self, key, value=, max_age=None, path='/', domain=None, secure=None):

+ def set_cookie(self, key, value=, max_age=None, expires=None, path='/', domain=None, secure=None):

self.cookies[key] = value

• for var in ('max_age', 'path', 'domain', 'secure'):

+ for var in ('max_age', 'path', 'domain', 'secure' , 'expires'):

val = locals()[var]
if val is not None:

self.cookies[key][var.replace('_', '-')] = val

[Andreas]

Cookies and Sessions were per-browser-session-only for me in both IE 6 and Opera 8.5. I'll attach a patch in a minute.

[Andreas]

"expires"-attribute for sessions and cookies

[Adrian Holovaty]

(In [1035]) Fixed #508 -- Added support for 'expires' in cookies and changed session middleware to set 'expires' in addition to 'max_age'. Thanks, mark@…