Re: Django's overall security

2005-09-14 Thread Simon Willison
One thing that Django would definitely benefit from is support for simple protection against CSRF attacks. The admin site should have this turned on by default, and some kind of mechanism for easily applying it to custom code would be welcome as well. CSRF attacks are described in detail

Re: Django's overall security

2005-09-14 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Sep 14, 2005, at 9:25 AM, John Madson wrote: There's been almost no discussion of Django's approach to security, either on this list, the users list, Trac, or in the documentation. Web application security is under heavy scrutiny these days and there's nary a frameout out there that's taki

Re: Django's overall security

2005-09-14 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 9/14/05, John Madson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A thorough discussion leading to an audit of Django's security > methodology is, in my mind, essential before the 1.0 milestone. How do > people feel about this? Sounds great. Let's do it! Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoproj

Django's overall security

2005-09-14 Thread John Madson
There's been almost no discussion of Django's approach to security, either on this list, the users list, Trac, or in the documentation. Web application security is under heavy scrutiny these days and there's nary a frameout out there that's taking it seriously. This seems like an opportunity for