I have a Django project, everything goes well, but when I tried to handle the expiration of the session I got confused In a test view print(request.session.get_session_cookie_age()) give me this error SessionStore' object has no attribute get_session_cookie_age According to the documentation it should returns the value of the setting SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Trying debugging with this code : from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session sk = request.session.session_key s = Session.objects.get(pk=sk) pprint(s.get_decoded()) >>> {'_auth_user_backend': 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', '_auth_user_hash': '055c9b751ffcc6f3530337321e98f9e5e4b8a623', '_auth_user_id': '6', '_session_expiry': 3600} Here is the config : Version Django = 2.0 Python 3.6.9 INSTALLED_APPS = [ 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'django.contrib.postgres', 'corsheaders', 'rest_framework', 'rest_framework.authtoken', 'drf_yasg', 'wkhtmltopdf', ] MIDDLEWARE = [ 'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware', 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware', 'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware', ] Thank's in advance Continue reading...