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| author | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2010-09-12 20:52:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2010-09-12 20:52:49 +0000 |
| commit | 2d4da641a6ee6c96f38336d8dc6786c07e7b3a1f (patch) | |
| tree | 3aeba6caba6dbb8a889ceaa3a155949d1ec24d03 /docs/ref | |
| parent | 7c075440ea3fb082b9b081a3c1b20b2b62e0e4dc (diff) | |
Allow setting HttpResponse cookie expiry times with datetime objects.
Patch from SmileyChris. Fixed #7770.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@13809 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/ref')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/request-response.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/request-response.txt b/docs/ref/request-response.txt index fb38b596e9..b8b08829e9 100644 --- a/docs/ref/request-response.txt +++ b/docs/ref/request-response.txt @@ -529,8 +529,11 @@ Methods * ``max_age`` should be a number of seconds, or ``None`` (default) if the cookie should last only as long as the client's browser session. - * ``expires`` should be a string in the format - ``"Wdy, DD-Mon-YY HH:MM:SS GMT"``. + If ``expires`` is not specified, it will be calculated. + * ``expires`` should either be a string in the format + ``"Wdy, DD-Mon-YY HH:MM:SS GMT"`` or a ``datetime.datetime`` object + in UTC. If ``expires`` is a ``datetime`` object, the ``max_age`` + will be calculated. * Use ``domain`` if you want to set a cross-domain cookie. For example, ``domain=".lawrence.com"`` will set a cookie that is readable by the domains www.lawrence.com, blogs.lawrence.com and |