Session value missing after redirect with django python-social-auth

Question

I am working on a django project using python-social-auth to do authentication with facebook. I am running the django server on localhost and have facebook set up with my ap

Answer 1

This error was due to the session cookie not being saved over a non-https url. When testing on localhost with SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE set to True in django, the session cookies will not persist between redirect and you will get this error in any kind of page change where session would be checked.

SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=False for testing and it's all good