From 61218e338a7517b25fc82697c3a11fff1edb6803 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:59:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] another branch --- doc/todo/use_secure_cookies_for_ssl_logins.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/use_secure_cookies_for_ssl_logins.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/use_secure_cookies_for_ssl_logins.mdwn b/doc/todo/use_secure_cookies_for_ssl_logins.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a91a15b98 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/use_secure_cookies_for_ssl_logins.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!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?) -- 2.32.0.93.g670b81a890