redbird
redbird copied to clipboard
Session cookie Expires/Max-Age not in sync with expiration_in_seconds
I expected a problem where I did configure Plug.Session
like this:
plug Plug.Session,
store: :redis,
key: "_session_key",
expiration_in_seconds: 60
This did work as expected - user was logged out after 60 seconds. However, I also noticed that the cookie, which holds session id does not have Expires/Max-Age
set, which means that this is essentially a Session
cookie which might get deleted after browser restart.
This causes a problem where expiration_in_seconds
is set to a longer period (months, for example), but user still needs to relogin after each browser restart.
That kind of a behavior was unexpected to me since I would have expected that the cookie expiration will be the same as expiration_in_seconds
. I did not also find any mentions about this behavior in the README.
I managed to solve this problem with the following configuration:
plug Plug.Session,
store: :redis,
key: "_session_key",
expiration_in_seconds: 60,
max_age: 60
If this behavior is intentional then maybe at least mention it in the README?