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django set session variable till end of day

I need to set a session variable that expires at the end of each day.

I know I can set a session variable like this:

request.session['my_variable'] = 'foo'

How can I then have this expire at the end of the day?

Solution

  • You can set an entire session to expire at the end of the day with

    request.session.set_expiry(seconds_until_end_of_day)

    or you can set a default expiration for all session cookies in your app with the setting

    SESSION_COOKIE_AGE

    again in seconds. If you absolutely need to set a specific cookie to have a special expiration then you may have to look into the session backend.