Re: [Caml-list] ANN: ocaml-session

[Spiros Eliopoulos <seliopou@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Török Edwin <edwin+ml-ocaml@etorok.net>
wrote:

> >
> > The library ships with an in-memory backend (for development and
> testing) and a postgresql-ocaml[0] based backend.
>
> How about signed cookies as a storage backend?
> Python Flask and Django can use it to store session entirely in the
> cookies with an hmac signature and expiration time, so your server can be
> entirely stateless.
> As long as the amount of data in your session is small, and all you need
> is authenticated data (and not secret data) I think its quite an elegant
> solution,
> and more fitting with a functional style.
>

This is interesting. As far as I can tell, it should be possible to
implement this as a backend without any modifications to module signatures.

Now of course comes the question Cryptokit or nocrypto :)


That decision, for better or worse, has already been made by ocaml-session:
it uses nocrypto to generate session keys.

-Spiros E.

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