Re: CSRF Middleware/SSL/Firefox 3.6.8 bug

2010-09-05 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > If you really want to use POST in HTTP → HTTPS transitions, introduce > settings.CSRF_WHATEVER, document it thoroughly and make it default to > False. Just for clarity -- when the flag is False and current connection is secure, the CSRF coo

Re: CSRF Middleware/SSL/Firefox 3.6.8 bug

2010-09-05 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Luke Plant wrote: > Barth, Jackson and Mitchell [1] collected some data that said that for > same-domain HTTPS POST requests, the header is missing in only 0.05% to > 0.22% of cases.  They've also got strong evidence that the header is > suppressed in the network, n

#13870: Correctly handling database isolation (in PostgreSQL)

2010-09-05 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
Some time ago I've reported ticket #13870¹. Here's a brief explanation of the problem: PostgreSQL has a concept called "isolation levels". These are various types of meta-transactions. 1. There's level 0 which means "off" and results in ghost reads (SELECT returning data not yet commited). 2. The

Re: python 3.x

2010-09-05 Thread VernonCole
"Once we're at a Django 2.6 minimum supported version, using 2to3 to maintain parallel implementations becomes a lot easier." As much as I admire Russ, and I do, I don't think that the above statement is correct. For a short time on the pywin32 team we tried to "maintain parallel implementations"