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Posted to dev@shiro.apache.org by Kalle Korhonen <ka...@gmail.com> on 2010/11/01 03:32:59 UTC

Re: shiro-1.10-snapshot cookie max-age issues

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHIRO-183

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <li...@toolazydogs.com> wrote:
> What Jira issue was this fix checked in under?  I want to merge the fix into my sandbox branch to see if it fixes SHIRO-212.
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> Regards,
> Alan
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> On Oct 25, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Kalle Korhonen wrote:
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>> I appreciate the report. The cookie spec is a bit vague on this and
>> unfortunately browsers handle the corner cases differently. Please
>> grab the latest snapshot later today (I just checked in a fix) which
>> should resolve this but also keep the fix for the original issue in
>> place.
>>
>> Kalle
>>
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>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Mike K <mk...@semanticresearch.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Having grabbed the latest shiro-1.10 snapshot  I started experiencing login
>>> issues in the application. Digging in further, I have noticed the following
>>> difference with cookies dropped at login between the earlier code drop and
>>> the newest:
>>> OLD:
>>> Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=6fd35335-6dd6-4d37-9813-71264e027bfe; Path=/service;
>>> HttpOnly
>>> NEW:
>>> Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=b11cc1ab-d812-44e5-af15-a291bdf3a6d7; Path=/service;
>>> Max-Age=-1; HttpOnly
>>>
>>>
>>> The difference is the setting of Max-Age=1, which seems like the right thing
>>> to do  according to http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html. Unfortunately
>>> this causes Firefox to delete the cookie and not forward it on subsequent
>>> requests. IE is not affected by this change.
>>>
>>> This seems like a bug (even if it really is in Firefox), but perhaps the
>>> devs here have a suggestion to mitigate this.
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