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Allow use of Pyramid-style signed or encrypted cookie for scallable Zope2 session storage

Project description

``zope2.sessioncookie``
=============================

Bridge to allow using Pyramid's `cookie session implementation
<http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/narr/sessions.html>`_
in Zope2.

.. note::

Initial development of this library was sponsored by ZeOmega Inc.

Installation
------------

1. Clone the repository. E.g.::

$ cd /path/to/
$ git clone git@github.com:zopefoundation/zope2.sessioncookie

2. Get ``zope2.sessioncookie`` installed on the Python path. E.g.::

$ cd /path/to/zope2.sessioncookie
$ /path/to/virtualenv_with_zope2/bin/pip install -e .
...

3. Copy / link the ``zope2.sessioncookie-meta.zcml`` file into the
``$INSTANCE_HOME/etc/package-includes`` of your Zope instance. (You might
need to create the directory first.) E.g.::

$ cd /path/to/zopes_instance
$ mkdir -p etc/package-includes
$ cd etc/package-includes
$ ln -s \
/path/to/zope2.sessioncookie/zope2.sessioncookie-meta.zcml .

4. Generate a 32-byte, hexlified secret::

$ /path/to/virtualenv_with_zope2/bin/print_secret
DEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEF

4. Edit the ``site.zcml`` for your instance. E.g.::

$ cd /path/to/zopes_instance
$ vim etc/site.zcml

Add an XML namespace declaration at the top, e.g.::

xmlns:sc="https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope2.sessioncookie"

Add a stanza near the end, configuring the cookie session. E.g.::

<sc:sessioncookie
secret="DEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEF"
secure="False"
encrypt="True"/>

5. Run the installation script, which disables the standard session
manager and adds the new hook. E.g.::

$ bin/zopectl run \
/path/to/zope2.sessioncookie/zope2/sessioncookie/scripts/install.py

6. (Re)start your Zope instance. Test methods which set session variables,
and inspect request / response cookies to see that ``_ZopeId`` is no longer
being set, while ``session`` *is* set (with encrypted, base64-encoded data).


Changelog
=========

0.7 (2015-12-16)
----------------

- Fix example ZCML snippet in ``README.rst`` (PR #3).

- Fix ZCML namespace in ``zope2/sessioncookie/meta.zcml`` (PR #3).

- Add script for uninstalling the root traversal hook (PR #2).

0.6.1 (2015-12-08)
------------------

- Packaging bug: add missing ``MANIFEST.in``.

0.6 (2015-11-23)
----------------

- Transferred copyright to Zope Foundation, relicensed to ZPL 2.1.

- Rename from ``zope2.signedsessioncookie`` -> ``zope2.sessioncookie``.

- Replace locally-defined ``EncryptingPickleSerialzer`` with
``pyramid_nacl_session.EncryptedSerializer``. Closes #8 and #9.

0.5 (2015-10-08)
----------------

- Add support for (optionally) encrypting session cookies, rather than
signing them.

0.4 (2015-10-05)
----------------

- Add an attribute, ``signedsessioncookie_installed``, to the root object
during installation.

0.3 (2015-09-30)
----------------

- Fix rendering ``http_only`` cookie attribute.

0.2 (2015-09-29)
----------------

- Add support for extra Pyramid session configuration via ZCML:
``hash_algorithm``, ``timeout``, ``reissue_time``.

- Suppress empty / None values in cookie attributes passed to
``ZPublisher.HTTPResponse.setCookie``.

- Refactor install script to allow reuse from other modules.

- Fix compatibility w/ ``zope.configuration 3.7.4``.

0.1 (2015-09-18)
----------------

- Initial release.

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