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Document the ds_actor signed cookie #826

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Document the ds_actor signed cookie#826
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Datasette 0.44
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simonw
opened on Jun 9, 2020

Most authentication plugins (https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github for example) are likely to work by setting the ds_actor signed cookie, which is already magically decoded and supported by default Datasette here:

datasette/datasette/actor_auth_cookie.py

Lines 1 to 13 in 4fa7cf6

from datasette import hookimpl
from itsdangerous import BadSignature
from http.cookies import SimpleCookie
@hookimpl
def actor_from_request(datasette, request):
if "ds_actor" not in request.cookies:
return None
try:
return datasette.unsign(request.cookies["ds_actor"], "actor")
except BadSignature:
return None

I should document this.

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