[Zope] Save a password encripted in a cookie

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Tue Sep 14 12:04:26 EDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 11:30, Andreas Jung wrote:
> You really don't want to send user+password encrypted or unencrypted as 
> cookie.
> This is a very bad practise! Instead you might send some token e.g. like 
> the __ac
> token used by Zope.

The __ac token used by Cookie Crumbler is just the base64 encoded
username and password, AFAIK.

- C




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