Round session cookie Max-Age without overflowing
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Adding time.Second-1 to MEALQUEST_SESSION_MAX overflowed time.Duration
near its largest accepted value, giving a negative MaxAge that net/http
sends as Max-Age=0. Divide by time.Second and increment the quotient
when there is a remainder instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-10-03 10:13:52 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 52664ad64b
commit d2fe767471
2 changed files with 28 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -93,10 +93,21 @@ 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. 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)))
http.SetCookie(w, sessionCookie(id, cookieMaxAge(m.max)))
return nil
}
// cookieMaxAge is lifetime in whole seconds, rounded up. It rounds the
// quotient rather than adding to lifetime, which would overflow near the
// largest time.Duration.
func cookieMaxAge(lifetime time.Duration) int {
seconds := lifetime / time.Second
if lifetime%time.Second != 0 {
seconds++
}
return int(seconds)
}
// SessionFor returns the live session r carries and slides its last use to
// now. It returns ErrNoSession when there is none; an expired session is
// deleted.
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@@ -333,6 +333,22 @@ func TestSessionCookieOutlivesFractionalMax(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// A lifetime near the largest accepted duration still yields a positive,
// rounded-up cookie Max-Age rather than overflowing.
func TestSessionCookieMaxAgeNearLargestMax(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
largest, err := time.ParseDuration("2562047h47m16.854s")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
h := newSessionHarness(t)
h.sessions.max = largest
_, cookie := h.signIn(t)
if want := 9223372037; cookie.MaxAge != want {
t.Errorf("session cookie MaxAge = %d, want %d", cookie.MaxAge, want)
}
}
// A lifetime shortened by configuration applies to existing sessions even
// though their stored expires_at is later.
func TestSessionLifetimeChecksUseCurrentConfig(t *testing.T) {