Round session cookie Max-Age up to whole seconds
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A maximum session lifetime with fractional seconds (e.g. 2500ms) was
truncated to a 2-second cookie Max-Age, so the browser dropped the
cookie before the server-side absolute limit. Round up instead; the
stored expires_at keeps the configured duration.

Fixes review finding MQ-19-2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-10-03 10:11:10 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 60c3538967
commit 52664ad64b
2 changed files with 31 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -91,8 +91,9 @@ func (m *SessionManager) StartSession(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, cl
}
// The cookie outlives idle gaps so a returning device presents its ID;
// the server decides whether the session is still live.
http.SetCookie(w, sessionCookie(id, int(m.max/time.Second)))
// the server decides whether the session is still live. Max-Age is whole
// seconds, rounded up so the cookie never ends before the absolute limit.
http.SetCookie(w, sessionCookie(id, int((m.max+time.Second-1)/time.Second)))
return nil
}
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@@ -305,6 +305,34 @@ func TestSessionAbsoluteExpiry(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// A max with fractional seconds rounds the cookie Max-Age up, so the browser
// keeps the cookie until the server-side absolute limit.
func TestSessionCookieOutlivesFractionalMax(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
h := newSessionHarness(t)
h.sessions.idle, h.sessions.max = 1500*time.Millisecond, 2500*time.Millisecond
_, cookie := h.signIn(t)
if cookie.MaxAge != 3 {
t.Errorf("session cookie MaxAge = %d, want 3", cookie.MaxAge)
}
if r := h.rows(t)[0]; !r.expires.Equal(testEpoch.Add(1500 * time.Millisecond)) {
t.Errorf("expires_at = %v, want %v", r.expires, testEpoch.Add(1500*time.Millisecond))
}
h.advance(time.Second)
if _, err := h.use(cookie); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("at 1s SessionFor = %v, want the session", err)
}
h.clock = testEpoch.Add(2500*time.Millisecond - time.Millisecond)
if _, err := h.use(cookie); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("just inside the absolute limit SessionFor = %v, want the session", err)
}
h.clock = testEpoch.Add(2500 * time.Millisecond)
if _, err := h.use(cookie); !errors.Is(err, ErrNoSession) {
t.Errorf("at the absolute limit SessionFor = %v, want ErrNoSession", err)
}
}
// A lifetime shortened by configuration applies to existing sessions even
// though their stored expires_at is later.
func TestSessionLifetimeChecksUseCurrentConfig(t *testing.T) {