Zend Framework - session id regenerated, can't stay logged in [duplicate] - session

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I'm trying to store sessions in a database using Zend Sessions however for some reason my sessions die out. Im not sure if there's some code being executed which does this or whether its something else.
I've noticed that the session ID seems to be regenerated after a breif time after having logged in.
This is even despite having added the following line in my htaccess file:
php_value session.auto_start 0
The end result is that I'm logged out every minute I'm logged in.
Heres my code in my bootstrap file
$config = array(
'name' => 'session',
'primary' => 'id',
'modifiedColumn' => 'modified',
'dataColumn' => 'data',
'lifetimeColumn' => 'lifetime'
);
$saveHandler = new Zend_Session_SaveHandler_DbTable($config);
Zend_Session::rememberMe($seconds = (60 * 60 * 24 * 30));
$saveHandler->setLifetime($seconds)->setOverrideLifetime(true);
Zend_Session::setSaveHandler($saveHandler);
//start your session!
Zend_Session::start();
I'm not using any other session related function except perhaps for Zend_Auth when logging in.
Infact rememberme calls the regenerateID function of the Session class - the end result is that I'm constantly logged out every few minutes now.

I think that you might be having this problem because you're calling rememberMe BEFORE starting the session.
You have to start the session first otherwise rememberMe won't do anything since it needs a session to set the rememberMe time on.
rememberMe calls the regenerateId function and the regeneration of the Id is what really needs the session to exist.
Place the rememberMe call after the session start then see how that works for you.
If that isn't it then I don't know what it could be since my code looks similar to yours.

Have you tried something like this?
protected function _initSession() {
$config = array(
'name' => 'session',
'primary' => 'id',
'modifiedColumn' => 'modified',
'dataColumn' => 'data',
'lifetimeColumn' => 'lifetime',
'lifetime' => 60*60*24*30,
);
Zend_Session::setSaveHandler(new F_Session_SaveHandler_DbTable($config));
}
This way the lifetime isn't set after initialising the database sessions, but is directly included in the initialisation options - it works for me, I see no reason why this should fail in your case :).

I think you need to look once into following values after bootstrap code
session.gc_maxlifetime
session.cookie_lifetime

If You configure session resources in *.ini config file, check resources.session.cookie_domain parameter.
I spend 3 hours when I remembered about it.

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laravel 6 csrf token expired in every 60 seconds?

I am using laravel 6.I Want my laravel CSRF Token expire in every 60 seconds.
config/session
'lifetime' => 60,
First of All, CSRF is stored in XSRF-TOKEN cookie. Ref: 50904763
According to the question (Ref: 51615122), We change the configuration in app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php by adding a new method named addCookieToResponse
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie;
public function addCookieToResponse($request, $response) {
$config = config('session');
$session_life = env('CSRF_LIFE');
$response->headers->setCookie(
new Cookie(
'XSRF-TOKEN', $request->session()->token(), $this->availableAt($session_life),
$config['path'], $config['domain'], $config['secure'], false, false, $config['same_site'] ?? null
)
);
}
where $config is used to get session information from existing lifetime. However, I parse $session_life from .env to make sure you can customize as much as you can.
So, the result is simple, configure everything as belongs but in area $this->availableAt($session_life) where session_life is in seconds.
So, please set session_life to 60 in .env as below:
CSRF_LIFE="60"
After you save and refresh your page, or clean cache and configs, Session LifeTime will be two hours but CSRF will be only 60 secs.
Hope this works.
After long testing I end up something, that you put in the lifetime option in session not allow to set expire time in seconds, it'll allow to minutes.
So, when you set up liftime = "60", it's means it will expire in 1 hour.
Hence, You have to set liftime = "1" in your config/session.pph file. Also, default value in .env file SESSION_LIFETIME=120 you have to replace that with 1 SESSION_LIFETIME = 1.
After that you have to clear the cache by command:-
php artisan config:cache
Now, your session will expire after 1 minute / 60 seconds.
To see more check this question.

Yii2 Never Logout Idle Or Away User

User's in Yii appear to be logged out automatically if they close their browser or are idle for about a day (maybe less, I'm not sure). Is it possible to not log them out ever (or at least for a long time for month or year). Not sure if the Session parameters or Cookie parameters need to change.
I've tried changing the parameters.
'components' => [
'session'=>[
'class' => 'yii\web\Session',
'cookieParams' => ['httponly' => true, 'lifetime' => 3600 * 4* 365],
'timeout' => 3600*4 *365,
'useCookies' => true
],
]
I've tried session php ini parameters:
session_set_cookie_params(0);
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 0);
And I've tried setting the login parameters
Yii::$app->user->login($user, 31536000);
The options you used it should work without timeout and useCookies options, I used it in my last project where the session needed to last for a week minimum, open storage tab in the Mozilla dev bar and click on cookies on the left you will see the cookies section with the cookies registered for your site, in my case it is http://www.kp2.local
if you use the 'lifetime' => 7 * 24 * 60 * 60, it should show the cookie with an expiry date 1 week later i.e Wed, 23 Jan 2019 like below
and if you comment out the code and then log out, and log in again it should show you the expiry time on Session like
You just need to use the following settings in the config
'session' => [
// this is the name of the session cookie used for login on the frontend
'name' => 'advanced-frontend',
'cookieParams' => [
'httpOnly' => true,
'lifetime' => 7 * 24 * 60 * 60
],
],
If it still doesn't work, log out of the system try removing all cookies once by selecting Delete all option like in the image below.
and it will work.
Note: You should change the 7 in 'lifetime' => 7 * 24 * 60 * 60, to the number of days you want to keep the session
Keeping session for such long time may be a bad idea - inactive sessions data will consume your server resources and may slow down some operations. Yii has dedicated feature for such cases - you may set $enableAutoLogin to true:
'user' => [
'enableAutoLogin' => true,
// ...
],
And on login() call set timeout for identity cookie:
Yii::$app->user->login($user, 31536000);
It will set special cookie (valid for a year) with identity info, which will autologin user after his session expires. In this way you don't need to keep session data on your server for a year, but from user perspective it looks like he is always login (even if in the background a new session is created).

Overriding joomla session variables for form handling

I have a joomla website with plethora theme. This is the link to the website where I'm facing problems. http://miraghotels.com/joomjob/membership/planadd?step=2
The form on this link is processed somewhere and an array of variables referring to the form fields and their values is stored in the Joomla session. The problem is that I want to change/override the value of a parameter which is actually in the array variable of the session. To explain this, I'm attaching this code.
$planChosen = $session->get('planChosen', 0, 'register');
First of all, what syntax is this session following? I get a different ouput from just
$session->get('planChosen').
Ok now, when I ouput this variable($planChosen), I get the following output:
Array ( [planname3] => Basic
[planperiod3] => 15 Days
[plancredit3] => 5
[price3] => 0
[plan_id] => 4
[planname4] => Premium
[planperiod4] => 3 Months
[plancredit4] => 25
[price4] => 50
[gateway] => paypal
[option] => com_joomjob
[task] => guest.grabplaninfo
[2d13d7c9e4ffff248cf29092b199f5b2] => 1 )
Now what I want to know is that where is this session stored i.e. where can I find the file where these items are processed in the session.
Secondly, if I want to override a value for e.g. change the value of "gateway" from "paypal" to "moneybookers", how can I achieve that? I tried the following code but no luck:
$string="('planChosen', 0, 'register')[\"gateway\"]";
$session->set($string, "moneybookers");
Please help me out with this
I got this from Joomla.org website
The following code gets the current session then sets the value of the session variable 'myvar' to 'helloworld'.
$session =& JFactory::getSession();
$session->set( 'myvar', 'helloworld' );
The session variable can be retrieved later in a similar way.
$session =& JFactory::getSession();
echo 'Session variable myvar has value: ' . $session->get( 'myvar', 'empty' );
So if you used this code to set paypal as payment gateway
$session->set( 'gateway', 'paypal' );
Now if you want moneybookers you can override paypal by
$session->clear('gateway');
$session->set( 'gateway', 'moneybookers' );
And your session data are saved in database by default unless you changed it to files in the global configuration area. So #__sessions has all your session data.
EDIT:
In that case you can do like this
$session =& JFactory::getSession();
$session->set( 'planChosen', $planChosen );//store array in session variable
//Now you have entire array in this session variable which contains paypal as payment gateway
// Suppose you want to update it then use the code below
$session =& JFactory::getSession();
$planChosen = $session->get( 'planChosen' );
unset($planChosen[$gateway]);
$planChosen["gateway"] = "moneybookers";
$session->set('planChosen',$planChosen);

How do you save a persistent session with a cookie in Ruby?

All I'm looking for is something very simple. I want to check if the client has my cookie in their browser. If so then to load the last session ID from the cookie and access the session from the server side. If not I want to create the server side session and store the session id to the cookie.
So my question is two parts. What parts of the session code/variable/ID is relevant to retrieve it in the future? And what's the simple method for achieving a continuous session via cookie/session?
I am not using rails. It's a standard CGI script.
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'cgi'
require 'cgi/session'
require 'cgi/session/pstore'
cgi = CGI.new("html4")
# !! TODO !! if cookie has "session_id" then open sess from "session_id"
sess = CGI.Session.new( cgi,
'database_manager' => CGI::Session::PStore, # use PStore
'session_key' => '_rb_sess_id', # custom session key
'session_expires' => Time.now + 30 * 60, # 30 minute timeout
'prefix' => 'pstore_sid_')
if sess.has_key? "friend_list"
#friend_list = sess['friend_list']
sess['access_count'] += 1
else
#friend_list = JSON.parse( IO.read( "fbget.json" ) )
sess['friend_list'] = #friend_list
sess['access_count'] = 1
end
I wanted to save the json list on the server side via a session instance. I figure putting that in a cookie would be a very bad security mistake.
Through my searching online I haven't found any non-rails info on saving session access info via the cookie. Only how to use each individually.

How to use last modified date to cache single page for 1 hour?

What I want to do is to cache a page for 1 hour. The thing is that I want to be able to set the case stale during this 1 hour period if my object is modified.
Here is my code so far:
$response = new Response();
$response->setLastModified(new \DateTime($lastModified));
if ($response->isNotModified($this->getRequest()))
return $response;
else
$response->setCache(array(
'public' => true,
'max_age' => 3600,
's_maxage' => 3600,
));
The problem is the above code doesn't check lastModified. Once the 1 hour cache is created I have to wait full 60 minutes to see the changes I have made to my object ($lastModified).
Here is an example of caching page using Last-Modified header at the symfony2 documentation.
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