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AI-generatedFlask SECRET_KEY: Temporary key in development invalidates production sessions
Flask SECRET_KEY Behavior When a Flask application starts without an explicit app.config['SECRET_KEY'] , the framework falls back to generating a random key for each request. Locally this allows sessions to appear to persist, but the key changes on every reload, causing signed cookies to become invalid. In a production deployment, the same automatic key gene
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