Plug v1.8.0 Plug.Session.COOKIE View Source

Stores the session in a cookie.

This cookie store is based on Plug.Crypto.MessageVerifier and Plug.Crypto.MessageEncryptor which encrypts and signs each cookie to ensure they can't be read nor tampered with.

Since this store uses crypto features, it requires you to set the :secret_key_base field in your connection. This can be easily achieved with a plug:

plug :put_secret_key_base

def put_secret_key_base(conn, _) do
  put_in conn.secret_key_base, "-- LONG STRING WITH AT LEAST 64 BYTES --"
end

Options

  • :encryption_salt - a salt used with conn.secret_key_base to generate a key for encrypting/decrypting a cookie, can be either a binary or an MFA returning a binary;

  • :signing_salt - a salt used with conn.secret_key_base to generate a key for signing/verifying a cookie, can be either a binary or an MFA returning a binary;

  • :key_iterations - option passed to Plug.Crypto.KeyGenerator when generating the encryption and signing keys. Defaults to 1000;

  • :key_length - option passed to Plug.Crypto.KeyGenerator when generating the encryption and signing keys. Defaults to 32;

  • :key_digest - option passed to Plug.Crypto.KeyGenerator when generating the encryption and signing keys. Defaults to :sha256;

  • :serializer - cookie serializer module that defines encode/1 and decode/1 returning an {:ok, value} tuple. Defaults to :external_term_format.

  • :log - Log level to use when the cookie cannot be decoded. Defaults to :debug, can be set to false to disable it.

Examples

# Use the session plug with the table name
plug Plug.Session, store: :cookie,
                   key: "_my_app_session",
                   encryption_salt: "cookie store encryption salt",
                   signing_salt: "cookie store signing salt",
                   key_length: 64,
                   log: :debug

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Functions

Removes the session associated with given session id from the store

Parses the given cookie

Initializes the store

Stores the session associated with given session id

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Removes the session associated with given session id from the store.

Callback implementation for Plug.Session.Store.delete/3.

Parses the given cookie.

Returns a session id and the session contents. The session id is any value that can be used to identify the session by the store.

The session id may be nil in case the cookie does not identify any value in the store. The session contents must be a map.

Callback implementation for Plug.Session.Store.get/3.

Initializes the store.

The options returned from this function will be given to get/3, put/4 and delete/3.

Callback implementation for Plug.Session.Store.init/1.

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put(conn, sid, term, opts) View Source

Stores the session associated with given session id.

If nil is given as id, a new session id should be generated and returned.

Callback implementation for Plug.Session.Store.put/4.