glarrain
/ gist:3982485
Created
October 30, 2012 19:37
Decode session data, no matter what hashes say. It helps in some cases where the Session.get_decoded method returns an empty dictionary because it is "suspicious" of user-data tampering. Based on source code from the Django project.
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| import base64 | |
| import pickle | |
| from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session | |
| from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode | |
| def decode_session_data(session_key): | |
| """Decode the data in a session object stored under ``session_key``. |