Update comments in verify_macaroon
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Richard van der Hoff 2016-11-30 07:36:32 +00:00
parent 1c4f05db41
commit 4febfe47f0

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@ -790,9 +790,6 @@ class Auth(object):
type_string(str): The kind of token required (e.g. "access", "refresh",
"delete_pusher")
verify_expiry(bool): Whether to verify whether the macaroon has expired.
This should really always be True, but there exist access tokens
in the wild which expire when they should not, so we can't
enforce expiry yet.
user_id (str): The user_id required
"""
v = pymacaroons.Verifier()
@ -805,6 +802,15 @@ class Auth(object):
v.satisfy_exact("type = " + type_string)
v.satisfy_exact("user_id = %s" % user_id)
v.satisfy_exact("guest = true")
# verify_expiry should really always be True, but there exist access
# tokens in the wild which expire when they should not, so we can't
# enforce expiry yet (so we have to allow any caveat starting with
# 'time < ' in access tokens).
#
# On the other hand, short-term login tokens (as used by CAS login, for
# example) have an expiry time which we do want to enforce.
if verify_expiry:
v.satisfy_general(self._verify_expiry)
else: