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Bug in Session destroy when using domain cookies


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jsantos81

Community Member, 3 Posts

12 November 2011 at 11:58pm

Edited: 12/11/2011 11:58pm

Hi,

I am using Silverstripe 2.4.6 and I found a bug when calling the method destroy from Session class. In fact, this method works fine if the PHP Session is not assigned to a specific domain. However, when it occurs, the PHPSESSID is not cleaned as expected.

Analyzing the source code, I realized that, when creating the session, Silverstripe is considering the domain and path.

	public static function start($sid = null) {
		self::load_config();
		$path = self::get_cookie_path();
		$domain = self::get_cookie_domain();
		$secure = self::get_cookie_secure();

		if(!session_id() && !headers_sent()) {
			if($domain) {
				session_set_cookie_params(self::$timeout, $path, $domain, $secure /* secure */, true /* httponly */);
			} else {
				session_set_cookie_params(self::$timeout, $path, null, $secure /* secure */, true /* httponly */);
			}

However, the same does not happen in destroy method

	public static function destroy($removeCookie = true) {
		if(session_id()) {
			if($removeCookie) {
				setcookie(session_name(), '');
				unset($_COOKIE[session_name()]);
			}
			session_destroy();
		}

The result is that, when creating the cookie, the server send this header:
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=an0918hnjouo8j027c4on7dju1; path=/; domain=.myDomain.com; HttpOnly

but when destroying, it is sent a part of this information
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=deleted; expires=Fri, 12-Nov-2010 10:42:28 GMT

My suggestion to fix this issue:

	public static function destroy($removeCookie = true) {
		if(session_id()) {
			if($removeCookie) {
                                $path = self::get_cookie_path();
                                $domain = self::get_cookie_domain();
                                $secure = self::get_cookie_secure();
                                
                                if($domain) {
                                    setcookie(session_name(), '', null, $path, $domain, $secure, true);
                                }
                                else {
                                    setcookie(session_name(), '', null, $path, null, $secure, true);
                                }
				unset($_COOKIE[session_name()]);
			}
			session_destroy();
		}
	}

Thanks
João Santos

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

13 November 2011 at 1:51pm

João, please submit bugs to open.silverstripe.org or patches to the github account as pull requests. That way they won't get lost on the forum and the core devs can review your work!

Cheers,