Flask之session

session是建立在Cookies基础上的技术，用于flask中存储不同请求间用户的信息，要使用session你必须设置一个secret_key，用于对Cookies进行密钥签名。如下：

from flask import Flask, render_template, session, request, redirect

app = Flask(__name__)
app.secret_key = 'md_hgh58jk'  # 使用session前需要设置该选项，用于对返回前台的cookie进行加密


@app.route('/login')
def login():
    # 登录成功，设置sesion，保存用户信息
    if request.method == 'POST':
        session['username'] = request.form['username']
        session['password'] = request.form['password']
        return redirect('/index')
    return render_template('login.html')

对于为什么需要使用secret_key这样的参数，源码中是使用这个当作salt进行加密，当save_session时response调用set_cookie，回写cookie。

    def save_session(self, app, session, response):
        domain = self.get_cookie_domain(app)
        path = self.get_cookie_path(app)

        # If the session is modified to be empty, remove the cookie.
        # If the session is empty, return without setting the cookie.
        if not session:
            if session.modified:
                response.delete_cookie(
                    app.session_cookie_name, domain=domain, path=path
                )

            return

        # Add a "Vary: Cookie" header if the session was accessed at all.
        if session.accessed:
            response.vary.add("Cookie")

        if not self.should_set_cookie(app, session):
            return

        httponly = self.get_cookie_httponly(app)
        secure = self.get_cookie_secure(app)
        samesite = self.get_cookie_samesite(app)
        expires = self.get_expiration_time(app, session)
        val = self.get_signing_serializer(app).dumps(dict(session)) 
        response.set_cookie(
            app.session_cookie_name,
            val,
            expires=expires,
            httponly=httponly,
            domain=domain,
            path=path,
            secure=secure,
            samesite=samesite,
        )

上面的val就是通过secret参数加密后的结果，写入cookie。完整的源码（from flask import session）如下：

class SecureCookieSessionInterface(SessionInterface):
    """The default session interface that stores sessions in signed cookies
    through the :mod:`itsdangerous` module.
    """

    #: the salt that should be applied on top of the secret key for the
    #: signing of cookie based sessions.
    salt = "cookie-session"
    #: the hash function to use for the signature.  The default is sha1
    digest_method = staticmethod(hashlib.sha1)
    #: the name of the itsdangerous supported key derivation.  The default
    #: is hmac.
    key_derivation = "hmac"
    #: A python serializer for the payload.  The default is a compact
    #: JSON derived serializer with support for some extra Python types
    #: such as datetime objects or tuples.
    serializer = session_json_serializer
    session_class = SecureCookieSession

    def get_signing_serializer(self, app):
        if not app.secret_key:
            return None
        signer_kwargs = dict(
            key_derivation=self.key_derivation, digest_method=self.digest_method
        )
        return URLSafeTimedSerializer(
            app.secret_key,
            salt=self.salt,
            serializer=self.serializer,
            signer_kwargs=signer_kwargs,
        )

    def open_session(self, app, request):
        s = self.get_signing_serializer(app)
        if s is None:
            return None
        val = request.cookies.get(app.session_cookie_name)
        if not val:
            return self.session_class()
        max_age = total_seconds(app.permanent_session_lifetime)
        try:
            data = s.loads(val, max_age=max_age)
            return self.session_class(data)
        except BadSignature:
            return self.session_class()

    def save_session(self, app, session, response):
        domain = self.get_cookie_domain(app)
        path = self.get_cookie_path(app)

        # If the session is modified to be empty, remove the cookie.
        # If the session is empty, return without setting the cookie.
        if not session:
            if session.modified:
                response.delete_cookie(
                    app.session_cookie_name, domain=domain, path=path
                )

            return

        # Add a "Vary: Cookie" header if the session was accessed at all.
        if session.accessed:
            response.vary.add("Cookie")

        if not self.should_set_cookie(app, session):
            return

        httponly = self.get_cookie_httponly(app)
        secure = self.get_cookie_secure(app)
        samesite = self.get_cookie_samesite(app)
        expires = self.get_expiration_time(app, session)
        val = self.get_signing_serializer(app).dumps(dict(session))
        response.set_cookie(
            app.session_cookie_name,
            val,
            expires=expires,
            httponly=httponly,
            domain=domain,
            path=path,
            secure=secure,
            samesite=samesite,
        )