Document what I know about the session regeneration issue. I'm really tired of fighting this darn thing. Sessions and cookies need to work.

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redmatrix 2016-05-18 20:36:03 -07:00
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@ -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