[1.10.x] Fixed #27352 -- Doc'd social media fingerprinting consideration with login's redirect_authenticated_user.

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Markus Holtermann 2016-10-15 20:32:19 +02:00 committed by Tim Graham
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@ -999,6 +999,15 @@ implementation details see :ref:`using-the-views`.
authenticated users accessing the login page will be redirected as if
they had just successfully logged in. Defaults to ``False``.
.. warning::
If you enable ``redirect_authenticated_user``, other websites will be
able to determine if their visitors are authenticated on your site by
requesting redirect URLs to image files on your website. To avoid
this "`social media fingerprinting
<https://robinlinus.github.io/socialmedia-leak/>`_" information
leakage, host all images and your favicon on a separate domain.
.. deprecated:: 1.9
The ``current_app`` parameter is deprecated and will be removed in