session: add long expires check and prevent set-cookie

examples/session.js

@@ -2,8 +2,34 @@
 var connect = require('../')
   , http = require('http');
 
+var year = 31557600000;
+
+// large max-age, delegate expiry to the session store.
+// for example with connect-redis's .ttl option.
+
+http.createServer(connect()
+  .use(connect.cookieParser())
+  .use(connect.session({ secret: 'keyboard cat', cookie: { maxAge: year }}))
+  .use(connect.favicon())
+  .use(function(req, res, next){
+    var sess = req.session;
+    if (sess.views) {
+      sess.views++;
+      res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html');
+      res.write('<p>views: ' + sess.views + '</p>');
+      res.write('<p>expires in: ' + (sess.cookie.maxAge / 1000) + 's</p>');
+      res.end();
+    } else {
+      sess.views = 1;
+      res.end('welcome to the session demo. refresh!');
+    }
+  })).listen(3007);
+
+console.log('port 3007: 1 minute expiration demo');
+
+
 // expire sessions within a minute
-// /favicon.ico is ignored, and will not 
+// /favicon.ico is ignored, and will not
 // receive req.session
 
 http.createServer(connect()
@@ -22,9 +48,9 @@ http.createServer(connect()
       sess.views = 1;
       res.end('welcome to the session demo. refresh!');
     }
-  })).listen(3000);
+  })).listen(3006);
 
-console.log('port 3000: 1 minute expiration demo');
+console.log('port 3006: 1 minute expiration demo');
 
 // $ npm install connect-redis
 
@@ -49,7 +75,7 @@ try {
         res.end('welcome to the redis demo. refresh!');
       }
     })).listen(3001);
-  
+
   console.log('port 3001: redis example');
 } catch (err) {
   console.log('\033[33m');

lib/middleware/session.js

@@ -256,6 +256,9 @@ function session(options){
       // only send secure cookies via https
       if (cookie.secure && !secured) return debug('not secured');
 
+      // long expires, handle expiry server-side
+      if (!isNew && cookie.hasLongExpires) return debug('already set cookie');
+
       // browser-session length cookie
       if (null == cookie.expires) {
         if (!isNew) return debug('already set browser-session cookie');
@@ -277,7 +280,8 @@ function session(options){
       if (!req.session) return res.end(data, encoding);
       debug('saving');
       req.session.resetMaxAge();
-      req.session.save(function(){
+      req.session.save(function(err){
+        if (err) console.error(err.stack);
         debug('saved');
         res.end(data, encoding);
       });

lib/middleware/session/cookie.js

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Cookie.prototype = {
    * @param {Date} date
    * @api public
    */
-  
+
   set expires(date) {
     this._expires = date;
     this.originalMaxAge = this.maxAge;
@@ -59,14 +59,14 @@ Cookie.prototype = {
   get expires() {
     return this._expires;
   },
-  
+
   /**
    * Set expires via max-age in `ms`.
    *
    * @param {Number} ms
    * @api public
    */
-  
+
   set maxAge(ms) {
     this.expires = 'number' == typeof ms
       ? new Date(Date.now() + ms)
@@ -104,6 +104,18 @@ Cookie.prototype = {
     }
   },
 
+  /**
+   * Check if the cookie has a reasonably large max-age.
+   *
+   * @return {Boolean}
+   * @api private
+   */
+
+  get hasLongExpires() {
+    var week = 604800000;
+    return this.maxAge > (4 * week);
+  },
+
   /**
    * Return a serialized cookie string.
    *
@@ -121,7 +133,7 @@ Cookie.prototype = {
    * @return {Object}
    * @api private
    */
-  
+
   toJSON: function(){
     return this.data;
   }