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HTTP::Session2(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTTP::Session2(3)

HTTP::Session2 - HTTP session management

    package MyApp;
    use HTTP::Session2;

    my $cipher = Crypt::CBC->new(
        {
            key    => 'abcdefghijklmnop',
            cipher => 'Rijndael',
        }
    );
    sub session {
        my $self = shift;
        if (!exists $self->{session}) {
            $self->{session} = HTTP::Session2::ClientStore2->new(
                env => $env,
                secret => 'very long secret string'
                cipher => $cipher,
            );
        }
        $self->{session};
    }

    __PACKAGE__->add_trigger(
        AFTER_DISPATCH => sub {
            my ($c, $res) = @_;
            if ($c->{session}) {
                $c->{session}->finalize_plack_response($res);
            }
        },
    );

HTTP::Session2 is yet another HTTP session data management library.

Alpha. Any API will change without notice.

We need a thrifty session management library.

Most of web application needs XSRF protection library.

tokuhirom guess XSRF token is closely related with session management.

In Japan, old DoCoMo's phone does not support cookie. Then, we need to support query parameter based session management.

But today, Japanese people are using smart phone :) We don't have to support legacy phones on new project.

This is an example code for filling XSRF token. This code requires jQuery.

    $(function () {
        "use strict";

        var xsrf_token = getXSRFToken();
        $("form").each(function () {
            var form = $(this);
            var method = form.attr('method');
            if (method === 'get' || method === 'GET') {
                return;
            }

            var input = $(document.createElement('input'));
            input.attr('type',  'hidden');
            input.attr('name',  'XSRF-TOKEN');
            input.attr('value',  xsrf_token);
            form.prepend(input);
        });

        function getXSRFToken() {
            var cookies = document.cookie.split(/\s*;\s*/);
            for (var i=0,l=cookies.length; i<l; i++) {
                var matched = cookies[i].match(/^XSRF-TOKEN=(.*)$/);
                if (matched) {
                    return matched[1];
                }
            }
            return undefined;
        }
    });

You need to call XSRF validator.

    __PACKAGE__->add_trigger(
        BEFORE_DISPATCH => sub {
            my $c = shift;
            my $req = $c->req;

            if ($req->method ne 'GET' && $req->method ne 'HEAD') {
                my $xsrf_token = $req->header('X-XSRF-TOKEN') || $req->param('xsrf-token');
                unless ($session->validate_xsrf_token($xsrf_token)) {
                    return [
                        403,
                        [],
                        ['XSRF detected'],
                    ];
                }
            }
            return;
        }
    );

pros
It was used well.
User can't see anything.
You can store large data in session.

cons

Setup is hard.
You need to setup some configuration for your application.

pros
You don't need to store anything on your server
It makes easy to setup your server environment.
Less server side disk
It helps your wallet.

cons

Security
I hope this module is secure. Because the data was signed by HMAC. But security thing is hard.
Bandwidth
If you store the large data to the session, your session data is send to the server per every request. It may hits band-width issue. If you are writing high traffic web site, you should use server side store.
Capacity
Cookies are usually limited to 4096 bytes. You can't store large data to the session. You should care the cookie size, or checking cookie size by the Plack::Middleware layer.

Ref. RFC2965 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2965>

How can I implement "Keep me signed in" checkbox?
You can implement it like following:

    sub dispatch_login {
        my $c = shift;
        if ($c->request->parameters->{'keep_me_signed_in'}) {
            $c->session->session_cookie->{expires} = '+1M';
        }
        $c->session->regenerate_id();
        my $user = User->login($c->request->parameters);
        $c->session->set('user_id' => $user->id);
    }
    

Copyright (C) tokuhirom.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

tokuhirom <tokuhirom@gmail.com>

magai
2018-01-26 perl v5.32.1

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