NAME

Catalyst::Plugin::Session::State::Cookie - Maintain session IDs using cookies.

SYNOPSIS

    use Catalyst qw/Session Session::State::Cookie Session::Store::Foo/;

DESCRIPTION

In order for Catalyst::Plugin::Session to work the session ID needs to be stored on the client, and the session data needs to be stored on the server.

This plugin stores the session ID on the client using the cookie mechanism.

METHODS

make_session_cookie

Returns a hash reference with the default values for new cookies.

update_session_cookie $hash_ref

Sets the cookie based on cookie_name in the response object.

EXTENDED METHODS

prepare_cookies

Will restore if an appropriate cookie is found.

finalize_cookies

Will set a cookie called session if it doesn't exist or if it's value is not the current session id.

setup_session

Will set the cookie_name parameter to it's default value if it isn't set.

CONFIGURATION

cookie_name

The name of the cookie to store (defaults to Catalyst::Utils::apprefix($c) . '_session').

cookie_domain

The name of the domain to store in the cookie (defaults to current host)

cookie_expires

Number of seconds from now you want to elapse before cookie will expire. Set to 0 to create a session cookie, ie one which will die when the user's browser is shut down.

cookie_secure

If this attribute set true, the cookie will only be sent via HTTPS.

CAVEATS

Sessions have to be created before the first write to be saved. For example:

        sub action : Local {
                my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
                $c->res->write("foo");
                $c->session( ... );
                ...
        }

Will cause a session ID to not be set, because by the time a session is actually created the headers have already been sent to the client.

SEE ALSO

Catalyst, Catalyst::Plugin::Session.

AUTHORS

This module is derived from Catalyst::Plugin::Session::FastMmap code, and has been heavily modified since.

Andrew Ford Andy Grundman Christian Hansen Yuval Kogman, nothingmuch@woobling.org Marcus Ramberg Sebastian Riedel

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.