Sessions and cookies

• Sessions
  • Introduction
  • Setting a session parameter
  • Getting a session
  • Getting session id
  • Initial construction of session data
  • Deleting session data
  • Session data and unit testing
  • Using Plone authentication cookie in other systems
  • Exploring Plone session configuration
• Cookies
  • Introduction
  • Reading cookies
  • Setting cookies
  • Modifying HTTP response cookies
  • Default Plone cookies
  • Session cookie lifetime
  • Sanitizing cookies for the cache
  • Signing cookies
• Status messages
  • Setting a status message
  • Rendering status message style by hand-crafted HTML
• Login and logout
  • Introduction
  • Login entry points
  • Extracting credentials
  • Authenticating the user
  • Post-login actions
  • Post-logout actions
  • Entry points to logged in member handling
  • Login as another user ("sudo")
  • Getting logged in users
  • Locking user account after too many retries
  • Hyperlinks to authenticated Plone content in Microsoft Office
  • Single Sign-On and Active Directory
  • Preventing duplicate logins from different browsers