From e13dc4905330dd2705d5b82420141b2fabab9a29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul McMillan <Paul@McMillan.ws>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:05:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Improved release notes about session cookie httponly flag
(#16847) per Luke's comments.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@17140 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
---
docs/releases/1.4.txt | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.4.txt b/docs/releases/1.4.txt
index 9275ac6ffe..10cbe3dba9 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.4.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.4.txt
@@ -498,9 +498,6 @@ Django 1.4 also includes several smaller improvements worth noting:
* Added the :djadminopt:`--no-location` option to the :djadmin:`makemessages`
command.
-* Changed the default value for ``httponly`` on session cookies to
- ``True`` to help reduce the impact of potential XSS attacks.
-
* Changed the ``locmem`` cache backend to use
``pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL`` for better compatibility with the other
cache backends.
@@ -948,3 +945,11 @@ Now, the flags are keyword arguments of :meth:`@register.filter
return value
See :ref:`filters and auto-escaping <filters-auto-escaping>` for more information.
+
+Session cookies now have the ``httponly`` flag by default
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Session cookies now include the ``httponly`` attribute by default to
+help reduce the impact of potential XSS attacks. For strict backwards
+compatibility, use ``SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY = False`` in settings.
+