How to use sessions with django piston auth?

Question

The problem is that I want to store authentication in a cookie that I can present to django piston rather than requiring user/password to be typed in each time (without hardcoding or storing the user/pass combo somewhere on disk). I was hoping to accomplish this with cookies like someone would without the piston API. Am I missing something?

Django Piston doesn't seem to care about session cookies at all?

Or can someone suggest a good alternative? Maybe I shouldn't use Piston?

Answer 1

If you are trying to keep a user logged in after they authenticate, Django's built in Sessions do that for you. You can change how long the session lasts by changing the SESSION_COOKIE_AGE setting. This will also change how long the sessions persist in your database (if you are using a database backend).

Answer 2

http://yml-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/django-piston-authentication-against.html