Handling cookies with Expires:Session

[piotr-cz]

Cookies with Expiry of session lifetime are not being saved by FileCookieJar and SessionCookieJar.

Save method ignores cookies with Expires null, I think the save method should not check against that one, but use the isExpired instead, so this line would read

if (!$cookie->isExpired() && !$cookie->getDiscard()) {

Or am I not getting something?

[mtdowling]

The cookie jar does not persist session cookies or expired cookies. Session cookies are for a specific session. When you close your browser, session cookies are removed. Guzzle's cookie jars work the same way as a browser with regards to session cookies.

It seems like you want to persist session cookies between sessions, so you'll need to implement custom serialization and deserialization of the cookie jar for your application.

[piotr-cz]

I guess it depends on the context of Session.
I'm using Guzzle in a CLI, when I'd like to persist session across commands.

My workaround:

$cookies = new FileCookieJar(storage_path('cookies') . '/' . $this->cookieFile);
$this->client->getEmitter()->attach(new \GuzzleHttp\Subscriber\Cookie($cookies));

$response = $this->client->get('/index.php');

// Set session cookies expiry to 1H from null
foreach ($cookies as $cookie)
{
    if ($cookie->getExpires() === null)
    {
        $cookie->setExpires(time() + 1 * 3600); // 1H
    }
}