From 610f997f1f4b4ab863d59ff90da467812be589aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Clay <samuel@ofbrooklyn.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:57:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Specifying SESSION_SERIALIZER, which changes from
 PickleSerializer to JsonSerializer in django 1.5 to 1.6.

---
 settings.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
index 0cb0bb222..52cd1c2f9 100644
--- a/settings.py
+++ b/settings.py
@@ -276,9 +276,11 @@ SOUTH_TESTS_MIGRATE     = False
 SESSION_ENGINE          = 'redis_sessions.session'
 TEST_RUNNER             = "utils.testrunner.TestRunner"
 SESSION_COOKIE_NAME     = 'newsblur_sessionid'
-SESSION_COOKIE_AGE      = 60*60*24*365 # 1 year
+SESSION_COOKIE_AGE      = 60*60*24*365*10 # 10 years
 SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN   = '.newsblur.com'
+SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY = False
 SENTRY_DSN              = 'https://XXXNEWSBLURXXX@app.getsentry.com/99999999'
+SESSION_SERIALIZER = 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer'
 
 if DEBUG:
     # EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'