Django: Now 10% less pornish
We've changed the default session cookie name. Instead of "hotclub", it's now "sessionid". Intended as a reference to the Hot Club of France (one of Django Reinhardt's bands), "hotclub" had been misinterpreted by some people as having some sort of porn-site meaning.
Oh, well. Wit and obscure references only go so far.
Posted by Adrian Holovaty on December 11, 2005
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Dan December 16, 2005 at 12:55 a.m.
What, no porn? Screw it I’m out of here.
Adrian Holovaty December 16, 2005 at 11:47 a.m.
Don't worry: You can keep using "hotclub" by changing your SESSION_COOKIE_NAME setting.
Anonymous January 1, 2006 at 11:30 p.m.
I worked at a major java application server company and we had to change the random string generated for sessions. Because they included a-zA-Z0-9 we would every once and a while (about 1 in 10000 times) generate a swear word in the session id.
For above commenter January 5, 2006 at 6:07 a.m.
I am such a sad guy: I take my ID's frmo floppy drives, or hard disks, or session id's and if I find one with something funny, I kinda think 'that's funny'.
I always wondered about that. (the swearing). My brain has too many free cycles.
Jamal Abdou Karim Bengeloun January 9, 2006 at 8:27 a.m.
I like to call my cookies dataporn (like in wired), you should have gone up a level on that one. Django is sexy... So what? Live up to it! sessionid reminds me of PHP.
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Loren Segal December 16, 2005 at 12:52 a.m.
That's really a shame :(