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| author | Markus Holtermann <info@markusholtermann.eu> | 2016-10-15 20:32:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2016-10-18 11:40:45 -0400 |
| commit | d3ca2907789c348bb132dfd112379df07db0cbbf (patch) | |
| tree | 010ca2fb4933642e63da329d03f7fb372495ab0e | |
| parent | 64e4adbfef343ce77ffcc9be219af69b65effcb3 (diff) | |
[1.10.x] Fixed #27352 -- Doc'd social media fingerprinting consideration with login's redirect_authenticated_user.
Backport of b5fc192b99ce92a7ccad08cca7b59b1a4e7ca230 from master
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/spelling_wordlist | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/auth/default.txt | 9 |
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diff --git a/docs/spelling_wordlist b/docs/spelling_wordlist index 6f076f5e33..826bc89693 100644 --- a/docs/spelling_wordlist +++ b/docs/spelling_wordlist @@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ fallback fallbacks faq FastCGI +favicon fieldset fieldsets filename diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt index 72507f6a17..2bb7883f75 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt @@ -999,6 +999,15 @@ implementation details see :ref:`using-the-views`. authenticated users accessing the login page will be redirected as if they had just successfully logged in. Defaults to ``False``. + .. warning:: + + If you enable ``redirect_authenticated_user``, other websites will be + able to determine if their visitors are authenticated on your site by + requesting redirect URLs to image files on your website. To avoid + this "`social media fingerprinting + <https://robinlinus.github.io/socialmedia-leak/>`_" information + leakage, host all images and your favicon on a separate domain. + .. deprecated:: 1.9 The ``current_app`` parameter is deprecated and will be removed in |