django-sessionprofile

Keep track of Django user sessions.

django-sessionprofile is a library to track which user a django session belongs to. Possible useful scenario’s for this information include:

• Single-Sign-On (SSO) between different applications that can read Django’s session cookie (same-origin setup)

• Single Logout (SLO) initiated in another application, triggering logout in yours

• Audit trail and security - allowing you to manage user sessions on other devices.

Features

• Django model to store user sessions

• Middleware to keep track of sessions

• Pluggable backends similar to Django’s session backends

• Management command to clear stale data

Contents

• Quickstart
  • Installation
  • Usage
  • Backends
• Examples
  • Generic querying
  • phpBB3
• Changelog
  • 3.0.0 (2023-05-05)
  • 2.0.0 (2022-10-30)
  • 1.0.0 (2016-08-13)

Credits

Many thanks go to Resolver Systems Ltd (now part of PythonAnywhere) who made the initial version of this library, specifically aimed at phpBB3.

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page