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| -rw-r--r-- | Zotlabs/Web/Session.php | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Zotlabs/Web/Session.php b/Zotlabs/Web/Session.php index 2b058d379..63ccd91fe 100644 --- a/Zotlabs/Web/Session.php +++ b/Zotlabs/Web/Session.php @@ -82,6 +82,19 @@ class Session { $arr = session_get_cookie_params(); if($this->handler && $this->session_started) { + + // The session should be regenerated to prevent session fixation attacks. + // Traditionally this has been working well, but stopped working in Firefox + // recently (~46.0). It works well in other browsers. FF takes time for the + // new cookie to propagate and it appears to still use the old cookie for the + // next several requests. We don't have an easy way to flush the cookies and + // ensure the browser is using the right one. I've tried several methods including + // delayed cookie deletion and issuing a page reload just after authentication + // and none have been successful and all are hacks to work around what looks to be + // a browser issue. This is an important @FIXME. We should enable by default and let + // folks disable it if they have issues, except they can't login to change it if + // their sessions aren't working. + // session_regenerate_id(true); // force SessionHandler record creation with the new session_id |