Flask Session Cookie Manager : Flask Session Cookie Decoder/Encoder

Flask Session Cookie Decoder/Encoder.

Dependencies

• Python 2 or Python 3
• itsdangerous
• Flask

Installation

• BlackArch Linux

# pacman -S flask-session-cookie-manager{3,2}

Git

• ArchLinux

Both python3 etn python2:

$ git clone https://github.com/noraj/flask-session-cookie-manager.git && cd flask-session-cookie-manager
# makepkg -sic

Other Distros

Find your way with your package manager, use pip in a virtual environment or use pyenv.

Eg.

$ git clone https://github.com/noraj/flask-session-cookie-manager.git && cd flask-session-cookie-manager
$ python -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ python setup.py install

Usage

Use flask_session_cookie_manager3.py with Python 3 and flask_session_cookie_manager2.py with Python 2.

Usage: flask_session_cookie_manager{2,3}.py [-h] {encode,decode} …

Flask Session Cookie Decoder/Encoder

Positional Arguments:
{encode,decode} sub-command help
encode encode
decode decode

Optional Arguments:
-h, –help show this help message and exit

• Encode

Usage: flask_session_cookie_manager{2,3}.py encode [-h] -s -t

Optional Arguments:
-h, –help show this help message and exit
-s , –secret-key
Secret key
-t , –cookie-structure
Session cookie structure

• Decode

Usage: flask_session_cookie_manager.py decode [-h] [-s ] -c

Optional Arguments:
-h, –help show this help message and exit
-s , –secret-key
Secret key
-c , –cookie-value
Session cookie value

Examples

• Encode

$ python{2,3} flask_session_cookie_manager{2,3}.py encode -s ‘.{y]tR&sp&77RdO~u3@XAh#TalD@Oh~yOF_51H(QV};K|ghT^d’ -t ‘{“number”:”326410031505″,”username”:”admin”}’ eyJudW1iZXIiOnsiIGIiOiJNekkyTkRFd01ETXhOVEExIn0sInVzZXJuYW1lIjp7IiBiIjoiWVdSdGFXND0ifX0.DE2iRA.ig5KSlnmsDH4uhDpmsFRPupB5Vw

Note: the session cookie structure must be a valid python dictionary

Decode

• With secret key:

$ python{2,3} flask_session_cookie_manager{2,3}.py decode -c ‘eyJudW1iZXIiOnsiIGIiOiJNekkyTkRFd01ETXhOVEExIn0sInVzZXJuYW1lIjp7IiBiIjoiWVdSdGFXND0ifX0.DE2iRA.ig5KSlnmsDH4uhDpmsFRPupB5Vw’ -s ‘.{y]tR&sp&77RdO~u3@XAh#TalD@Oh~yOF_51H(QV};K|ghT^d’ {u’username’: ‘admin’, u’number’: ‘326410031505’}

• Without secret key (less pretty output):

$ python{2,3} flask_session_cookie_manager{2,3}.py decode -c ‘eyJudW1iZXIiOnsiIGIiOiJNekkyTkRFd01ETXhOVEExIn0sInVzZXJuYW1lIjp7IiBiIjoiWVdSdGFXND0ifX0.DE2iRA.ig5KSlnmsDH4uhDpmsFRPupB5Vw’ {“number”:{” b”:”MzI2NDEwMDMxNTA1″},”username”:{” b”:”YWRtaW4=”}}