Commit 3a85aae2 authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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Revert "Improve cookie based session backend docs." refs #20418 

This reverts commit d9c01da1.

This is poor advice as it breaks the test client login (refs #22934).
We can add a note like this back after refs #22986 is resolved.
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docs/topics/http/sessions.txt

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@@ -119,13 +119,6 @@ To use cookies-based sessions, set the :setting:`SESSION_ENGINE` setting to 
stored using Django's tools for :doc:`cryptographic signing </topics/signing>`

and the :setting:`SECRET_KEY` setting.



.. note::



    When using cookies-based sessions :mod:`django.contrib.sessions` can be

    removed from :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` setting because data is loaded

    from the key itself and not from the database, so there is no need for the

    creation and usage of ``django.contrib.sessions.models.Session`` table.



.. note::



    It's recommended to leave the :setting:`SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY` setting