[Python-Dev] Cookie.py security (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@beopen.com
Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:45:28 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:09:16AM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

A bit safer, I think, but this maintains the backward compatibility issue.

timo@timo-tasi.org writes:

Is this true? Marshal is backwards compatible to Pickle?

If it is true, that'd be kinda cool.

Would be, but my statement wasn't clear: it maintains the issue, not compatibility. ;( The data formats are not interchangable in any way.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. BeOpen PythonLabs Team Member