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At the moment sslcookie => 0 never creates secure cookies, so if you log in with SSL, your browser will send the session cookie even over plain HTTP. Meanwhile sslcookie => 1 always creates secure cookies, so you can't usefully log in over plain http.

This branch adds sslcookie => 0, sslcookie_auto => 1 as an option; this uses the HTTPS environment variable, so if you log in over SSL you'll get a secure session cookie, but if you log in over HTTP, you won't. (The syntax for the setup file is pretty rubbish - any other suggestions?)