Expiring cookies

RT Users
1

Is anyone aware of a (auick and dirty) way in which a cookie can be expired after X amount of time? We are having a problem with employees sharing workstations as it seems as though the cookies last forever… (RT 2.0.9pre4).

Im assuming something in Web.pm or webmux.pl but I cant find say for sure… perhaps:

[root@myhost rt2]# find . -exec grep -sl ookie {} ;
./bin/webmux.pl
./bin/mason_handler.fcgi
./bin/mason_handler.scgi
./lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm

thanks.

timuel

2

Is anyone aware of a (auick and dirty) way in which a cookie can be
expired after X amount of time? We are having a problem with employees
sharing workstations as it seems as though the cookies last forever…
(RT 2.0.9pre4).

Im assuming something in Web.pm or webmux.pl but I cant find say for
sure… perhaps:

[root@myhost rt2]# find . -exec grep -sl ookie {} ;
./bin/webmux.pl
./bin/mason_handler.fcgi
./bin/mason_handler.scgi
./lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm

My copy of webmux.pl has these lines:

156     if ( !$cookies{'AF_SID'} ) {
157         my $cookie = new Apache::Cookie
158           ($r,
159            -name=>'AF_SID',
160            -value=>$HTML::Mason::Commands::session{_session_id},
161            -path => '/',);
162         $cookie->bake;
163 
164     }

I.e., cookies are to expire when the browser session ends. Individual
clients might not repect this, of course. To set an explicit expiration
time, add:

-expires => “$time”,

after line 160 (or so). $time, in this case, is either a http-formatted
time or (more conveniently) a relative time, espressed symbolicly:

# format for time can be in any of the forms...
# "now" -- expire immediately
# "+180s" -- in 180 seconds
# "+2m" -- in 2 minutes
# "+12h" -- in 12 hours
# "+1d"  -- in 1 day
# "+3M"  -- in 3 months
# "+2y"  -- in 2 years
# "-3m"  -- 3 minutes ago(!)
# If you don't supply one of these forms, we assume you are
# specifying the date yourself

(This is from CGI::Util::expires.)

So, to expire in 1 day, use +1d as the value for expires.

(darren)

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