This is used to secure the cookies. Encryption keys and message
authentication keys are derived from this using one-way functions.
Changing it will invalidate all sessions.
Number of seconds for which the session may be considered valid. If
cookie_duration is not set as part of the session configuration, this
is used instead to expire the session after a period of time,
regardless of the length of the browser session. It is unset by
default, meaning that sessions expiration is not capped.
If set to true, the secret key will have the request address (as
provided by <$request-address>>) appended to it. This can help defeat
some replay attacks (e.g. if the channel is not secure). But it will
also cause session interruption for people on dynamic addresses.
SYNOPSIS
# In Dancer 2 config.yml file
session: Cookie
engines:
session:
Cookie:
secret_key: your secret passphrase
default_duration: 604800
with_request_address: 0
DESCRIPTION
This module implements a session factory for Dancer 2 that stores
session state within a browser cookie. Features include:
* Data serialization and compression using Sereal
* Data encryption using AES with a unique derived key per cookie
* Enforced expiration timestamp (independent of cookie expiration)
* Cookie integrity protected with a message authentication code (MAC)
See Session::Storage::Secure for implementation details and important
security caveats.
SEE ALSO
CPAN modules providing cookie session storage (possibly for other
frameworks):
* Dancer::Session::Cookie -- Dancer 1 equivalent to this module
* Catalyst::Plugin::CookiedSession -- encryption only
* HTTP::CryptoCookie -- encryption only
* Mojolicious::Sessions -- MAC only
* Plack::Middleware::Session::Cookie -- MAC only
* Plack::Middleware::Session::SerializedCookie -- really just a
framework and you provide the guts with callbacks
* Dancer2::Core::Role::SessionFactory -- documentation of the base
package, some more attributes to configure the cookie
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