[jira] [Resolved] (COUCHDB-1607) cookie_authentication_handler does not properly handle AuthSession signatures starting with ":" character(s)

["Robert Newson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1607?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Robert Newson resolved COUCHDB-1607.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 1.3
    
> cookie_authentication_handler does not properly handle AuthSession signatures starting with ":" character(s)
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>                 Key: COUCHDB-1607
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1607
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.2
>            Reporter: Nathan Vander Wilt
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 1.3
>
>
> AuthSession cookies will intermittently "break" — a user will have a perfectly valid session, but suddenly after their cookie gets refreshed they can randomly get "logged out" for practical purposes.
> The cause is that Erlang's `string:tokens` behaviour does act as this code expects:
> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/7d4181346626c0cdb50b44f7e5e33435a8ccae0f/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_auth.erl#L163
> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/7d4181346626c0cdb50b44f7e5e33435a8ccae0f/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_auth.erl#L183
> After evaluating `[A,B | C] = string:tokens("a:b::c:d").` the value of C is not `["","c","d"]` but rather `["c","d"]`. So when rejoined, the signature becomes "c:d" instead of the original ":c:d"!
> It appears that using re.split/2 would avoid this problem, but yields a list/array result containing <<"">> instead of "" types, which string:join does not like. Should be pretty quick fix though for someone who knows just a bit more of the Erlang way.

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