doc/todo/use_secure_cookies_for_ssl_logins.mdwn



[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/sslcookie-auto author="[[smcv]]"]]
[[!tag patch]]
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?)

Does this need to be a configurable option at all? The behavior could
just be changed in the sslcookie = 0 case. It seems sorta reasonable
that, once I've logged in via https, I need to re-login if I then
switch to http.


Even better. I've amended the branch to have this behaviour, which
turns it into a one-line patch. --[[smcv]]


And, if your change is made, the sslcookie option could probably itself
be dropped too -- at least I don't see a real use case for it if ikiwiki
is more paranoid about cookies by default.


I haven't done that; it might make sense to do so, but I think it'd be
better to leave it in as a safety-catch (or in case someone's
using a webserver that doesn't put $HTTPS in the environment). --s


Might be best to fix
[[todo/want_to_avoid_ikiwiki_using_http_or_https_in_urls_to_allow_serving_both]]
first, so that dual https/http sites can better be set up. --[[Joey]]


Thanks for merging that! :-) --s


[[merged|done]] --[[Joey]]