1 [[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/sslcookie-auto author="[[smcv]]"]]
4 At the moment `sslcookie => 0` never creates secure cookies, so if you log in
5 with SSL, your browser will send the session cookie even over plain HTTP.
6 Meanwhile `sslcookie => 1` always creates secure cookies, so you can't
7 usefully log in over plain http.
9 This branch adds `sslcookie => 0, sslcookie_auto => 1` as an option; this
10 uses the `HTTPS` environment variable, so if you log in over SSL you'll
11 get a secure session cookie, but if you log in over HTTP, you won't.
12 (The syntax for the setup file is pretty rubbish - any other suggestions?)
14 > Does this need to be a configurable option at all? The behavior could
15 > just be changed in the sslcookie = 0 case. It seems sorta reasonable
16 > that, once I've logged in via https, I need to re-login if I then
19 > And, if your change is made, the sslcookie option could probably itself
20 > be dropped too -- at least I don't see a real use case for it if ikiwiki
21 > is more paranoid about cookies by default.
23 > Might be best to fix
24 > [[todo/want_to_avoid_ikiwiki_using_http_or_https_in_urls_to_allow_serving_both]]
25 > first, so that dual https/http sites can better be set up. --[[Joey]]