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| author | Ryan West <ryanisnan@gmail.com> | 2013-03-18 19:18:35 -0700 |
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| committer | Ryan West <ryanisnan@gmail.com> | 2013-03-18 19:18:35 -0700 |
| commit | ae8fcedbc7694010490ac2b365b397e8e2e39b44 (patch) | |
| tree | 335434e58b87086d5f5bfe4227bb1fc86fcae003 /docs | |
| parent | 9d6ecc6bc668b5a243905486fa724d53508ad2b5 (diff) | |
small documentation update to outline caveat with SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/settings.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt index b8041a8a9b..2d24ccb441 100644 --- a/docs/ref/settings.txt +++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt @@ -2287,6 +2287,12 @@ The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as ``".example.com"`` (note the leading dot!) for cross-domain cookies, or use ``None`` for a standard domain cookie. +Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update +this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used +standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old +domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies +persist. + .. setting:: SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY |