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Ruby

Mitch Malone
Mitch Malone
3,577 Points
Posted by Mitch Malone
Mitch Malone
3,577 Points

Security Warning when testing profile names

I'm doing unit testing for the profile name formatting section when I get this error: SECURITY WARNING: No secret option provided to Rack::Session::Cookie. This poses a security threat. It is strongly recommended that you provide a secret to prevent exploits that may be possible from crafted cookies. This will not be supported in future versions of Rack, and future versions will even invalidate your existing user cookies.

I get the error when I use the regx from the video and in the "relevant code" section below. I have no idea what to do.

1 Answer

Mitch Malone
Mitch Malone
3,577 Points
Mitch Malone
Mitch Malone
3,577 Points

I fixed it. The regex in the "relevant code" is wrong. There's two uppercase "Z"s which was messing it up.