| Catalyst-Plugin-Session documentation | Contained in the Catalyst-Plugin-Session distribution. |
Catalyst::Plugin::Session - Generic Session plugin - ties together server side storage and client side state required to maintain session data.
# To get sessions to "just work", all you need to do is use these plugins:
use Catalyst qw/
Session
Session::Store::FastMmap
Session::State::Cookie
/;
# you can replace Store::FastMmap with Store::File - both have sensible
# default configurations (see their docs for details)
# more complicated backends are available for other scenarios (DBI storage,
# etc)
# after you've loaded the plugins you can save session data
# For example, if you are writing a shopping cart, it could be implemented
# like this:
sub add_item : Local {
my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
my $item_id = $c->req->param("item");
# $c->session is a hash ref, a bit like $c->stash
# the difference is that it' preserved across requests
push @{ $c->session->{items} }, $item_id;
$c->forward("MyView");
}
sub display_items : Local {
my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
# values in $c->session are restored
$c->stash->{items_to_display} =
[ map { MyModel->retrieve($_) } @{ $c->session->{items} } ];
$c->forward("MyView");
}
The Session plugin is the base of two related parts of functionality required for session management in web applications.
The first part, the State, is getting the browser to repeat back a session key, so that the web application can identify the client and logically string several requests together into a session.
The second part, the Store, deals with the actual storage of information about the client. This data is stored so that the it may be revived for every request made by the same client.
This plugin links the two pieces together.
The only really sane way to do state is using cookies.
A portable backend, based on Cache::File.
A fast and flexible backend, based on Cache::FastMmap.
An accessor for the session ID value.
Returns a hash reference that might contain unserialized values from previous requests in the same session, and whose modified value will be saved for future requests.
This method will automatically create a new session and session ID if none exists.
You can also set session keys by passing a list of key/value pairs or a hashref.
$c->session->{foo} = "bar"; # This works.
$c->session(one => 1, two => 2); # And this.
$c->session({ answer => 42 }); # And this.
This method returns the time when the current session will expire, or 0 if there is no current session. If there is a session and it already expired, it will delete the session and return 0 as well.
If the $reset parameter is true, and there is a session ID the expiry time
will be reset to the current time plus the time to live (see
CONFIGURATION). This is used when creating a new session.
This is like Ruby on Rails' flash data structure. Think of it as a stash that lasts for longer than one request, letting you redirect instead of forward.
The flash data will be cleaned up only on requests on which actually use $c->flash (thus allowing multiple redirections), and the policy is to delete all the keys which haven't changed since the flash data was loaded at the end of every request.
sub moose : Local {
my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
$c->flash->{beans} = 10;
$c->response->redirect( $c->uri_for("foo") );
}
sub foo : Local {
my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
my $value = $c->flash->{beans};
# ...
$c->response->redirect( $c->uri_for("bar") );
}
sub bar : Local {
my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
if ( exists $c->flash->{beans} ) { # false
}
}
Zap all the keys in the flash regardless of their current state.
If you want to keep a flash key for the next request too, even if it hasn't
changed, call keep_flash and pass in the keys as arguments.
This method is used to invalidate a session. It takes an optional parameter
which will be saved in session_delete_reason if provided.
NOTE: This method will also delete your flash data.
This accessor contains a string with the reason a session was deleted. Possible values include:
address mismatch session expiredMark a key to expire at a certain time (only useful when shorter than the expiry time for the whole session).
For example:
__PACKAGE__->config('Plugin::Session' => { expires => 10000000000 }); # "forever"
(NB If this number is too large, Y2K38 breakage could result.)
# later
$c->session_expire_key( __user => 3600 );
Will make the session data survive, but the user will still be logged out after an hour.
Note that these values are not auto extended.
By calling this method you can force a session id change while keeping all session data. This method might come handy when you are paranoid about some advanced variations of session fixation attack.
If you want to prevent this session fixation scenario:
0) let us have WebApp with anonymous and authenticated parts
1) a hacker goes to vulnerable WebApp and gets a real sessionid,
just by browsing anonymous part of WebApp
2) the hacker inserts (somehow) this values into a cookie in victim's browser
3) after the victim logs into WebApp the hacker can enter his/her session
you should call change_session_id in your login controller like this:
if ($c->authenticate( { username => $user, password => $pass } )) {
# login OK
$c->change_session_id;
...
} else {
# login FAILED
...
}
This method is extended to also make calls to
check_session_plugin_requirements and setup_session.
This method ensures that a State and a Store plugin are also in use by the application.
This method populates $c->config('Plugin::Session') with the default values
listed in CONFIGURATION.
This method is extended.
Its only effect is if the (off by default) flash_to_stash configuration
parameter is on - then it will copy the contents of the flash to the stash at
prepare time.
This method is extended and will extend the expiry time before sending the response.
This method is extended and will call finalize_session before the other finalize_body methods run. Here we persist the session data if a session exists.
This method will initialize the internal structure of the session, and is
called by the session method if appropriate.
Creates a new session ID using generate_session_id if there is no session ID
yet.
Make sure a session ID is of the right format.
This currently ensures that the session ID string is any amount of case insensitive hexadecimal characters.
This method will return a string that can be used as a session ID. It is
supposed to be a reasonably random string with enough bits to prevent
collision. It basically takes session_hash_seed and hashes it using SHA-1,
MD5 or SHA-256, depending on the availability of these modules.
This method is actually rather internal to generate_session_id, but should be overridable in case you want to provide more random data.
Currently it returns a concatenated string which contains:
rand.in the hopes that those combined values are entropic enough for most uses. If
this is not the case you can replace session_hash_seed with e.g.
sub session_hash_seed {
open my $fh, "<", "/dev/random";
read $fh, my $bytes, 20;
close $fh;
return $bytes;
}
Or even more directly, replace generate_session_id:
sub generate_session_id {
open my $fh, "<", "/dev/random";
read $fh, my $bytes, 20;
close $fh;
return unpack("H*", $bytes);
}
Also have a look at Crypt::Random and the various openssl bindings - these modules provide APIs for cryptographically secure random data.
Clean up the session during finalize.
This clears the various accessors after saving to the store.
See dump_these in Catalyst - ammends the session data structure to the list of dumped objects if session ID is defined.
The earliest point in time at which you may use the session data is after
Catalyst::Plugin::Session's prepare_action has finished.
State plugins must set $c->session ID before prepare_action, and during
prepare_action Catalyst::Plugin::Session will actually load the data from
the store.
sub prepare_action {
my $c = shift;
# don't touch $c->session yet!
$c->NEXT::prepare_action( @_ );
$c->session; # this is OK
$c->sessionid; # this is also OK
}
$c->config('Plugin::Session' => {
expires => 1234,
});
All configuation parameters are provided in a hash reference under the
Plugin::Session key in the configuration hash.
The time-to-live of each session, expressed in seconds. Defaults to 7200 (two hours).
When true, <$c-request->address>> will be checked at prepare time. If it is
not the same as the address that initiated the session, the session is deleted.
Defaults to false.
When true, <$c-request->user_agent>> will be checked at prepare time. If it
is not the same as the user agent that initiated the session, the session is
deleted.
Defaults to false.
This option makes it easier to have actions behave the same whether they were
forwarded to or redirected to. On prepare time it copies the contents of
flash (if any) to the stash.
The hash reference returned by $c->session contains several keys which
are automatically set:
This key no longer exists. Use session_expires instead.
The last time a session was saved to the store.
The time when the session was first created.
The value of $c->request->address at the time the session was created.
This value is only populated if verify_address is true in the configuration.
The value of $c->request->user_agent at the time the session was created.
This value is only populated if verify_user_agent is true in the configuration.
verify_address could make your site inaccessible to users who are behind
load balanced proxies. Some ISPs may give a different IP to each request by the
same client due to this type of proxying. If addresses are verified these
users' sessions cannot persist.
To let these users access your site you can either disable address verification
as a whole, or provide a checkbox in the login dialog that tells the server
that it's OK for the address of the client to change. When the server sees that
this box is checked it should delete the __address special key from the
session hash when the hash is first created.
In this day and age where cleaning detergents and Dutch football (not the American kind) teams roam the plains in great numbers, requests may happen simultaneously. This means that there is some risk of session data being overwritten, like this:
request a starts, request b starts, with the same session ID
session data is loaded in request a
session data is loaded in request b
session data is changed in request a
request a finishes, session data is updated and written to store
request b finishes, session data is updated and written to store, overwriting changes by request a
For applications where any given user's session is only making one request at a time this plugin should be safe enough.
Andy Grundman
Christian Hansen
Yuval Kogman, nothingmuch@woobling.org
Sebastian Riedel
Tomas Doran (t0m) bobtfish@bobtfish.net (current maintainer)
Sergio Salvi
kmx kmx@volny.cz
Florian Ragwitz (rafl) rafl@debian.org
Kent Fredric (kentnl)
And countless other contributers from #catalyst. Thanks guys!
Copyright (c) 2005 the aforementioned authors. All rights
reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
| Catalyst-Plugin-Session documentation | Contained in the Catalyst-Plugin-Session distribution. |
#!/usr/bin/perl package Catalyst::Plugin::Session; use Moose; with 'MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast'; use MRO::Compat; use Catalyst::Exception (); use Digest (); use overload (); use Object::Signature (); use Carp; use namespace::clean -except => 'meta'; our $VERSION = '0.32'; $VERSION = eval $VERSION; my @session_data_accessors; # used in delete_session __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors( "_session_delete_reason", @session_data_accessors = qw/ _sessionid _session _session_expires _extended_session_expires _session_data_sig _flash _flash_keep_keys _flash_key_hashes _tried_loading_session_id _tried_loading_session_data _tried_loading_session_expires _tried_loading_flash_data / ); sub _session_plugin_config { my $c = shift; # FIXME - Start warning once all the state/store modules have also been updated. #$c->log->warn("Deprecated 'session' config key used, please use the key 'Plugin::Session' instead") # if exists $c->config->{session} #$c->config->{'Plugin::Session'} ||= delete($c->config->{session}) || {}; $c->config->{'Plugin::Session'} ||= $c->config->{session} || {}; } sub setup { my $c = shift; $c->maybe::next::method(@_); $c->check_session_plugin_requirements; $c->setup_session; return $c; } sub check_session_plugin_requirements { my $c = shift; unless ( $c->isa("Catalyst::Plugin::Session::State") && $c->isa("Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store") ) { my $err = ( "The Session plugin requires both Session::State " . "and Session::Store plugins to be used as well." ); $c->log->fatal($err); Catalyst::Exception->throw($err); } } sub setup_session { my $c = shift; my $cfg = $c->_session_plugin_config; %$cfg = ( expires => 7200, verify_address => 0, verify_user_agent => 0, %$cfg, ); $c->maybe::next::method(); } sub prepare_action { my $c = shift; $c->maybe::next::method(@_); if ( $c->_session_plugin_config->{flash_to_stash} and $c->sessionid and my $flash_data = $c->flash ) { @{ $c->stash }{ keys %$flash_data } = values %$flash_data; } } sub finalize_headers { my $c = shift; # fix cookie before we send headers $c->_save_session_expires; return $c->maybe::next::method(@_); } sub finalize_body { my $c = shift; # We have to finalize our session *before* $c->engine->finalize_xxx is called, # because we do not want to send the HTTP response before the session is stored/committed to # the session database (or whatever Session::Store you use). $c->finalize_session; return $c->maybe::next::method(@_); } sub finalize_session { my $c = shift; $c->maybe::next::method(@_); $c->_save_session_id; $c->_save_session; $c->_save_flash; $c->_clear_session_instance_data; } sub _save_session_id { my $c = shift; # we already called set when allocating # no need to tell the state plugins anything new } sub _save_session_expires { my $c = shift; if ( defined($c->_session_expires) ) { my $expires = $c->session_expires; # force extension my $sid = $c->sessionid; $c->store_session_data( "expires:$sid" => $expires ); } } sub _save_session { my $c = shift; if ( my $session_data = $c->_session ) { no warnings 'uninitialized'; if ( Object::Signature::signature($session_data) ne $c->_session_data_sig ) { $session_data->{__updated} = time(); my $sid = $c->sessionid; $c->store_session_data( "session:$sid" => $session_data ); } } } sub _save_flash { my $c = shift; if ( my $flash_data = $c->_flash ) { my $hashes = $c->_flash_key_hashes || {}; my $keep = $c->_flash_keep_keys || {}; foreach my $key ( keys %$hashes ) { if ( !exists $keep->{$key} and Object::Signature::signature( \$flash_data->{$key} ) eq $hashes->{$key} ) { delete $flash_data->{$key}; } } my $sid = $c->sessionid; my $session_data = $c->_session; if (%$flash_data) { $session_data->{__flash} = $flash_data; } else { delete $session_data->{__flash}; } $c->_session($session_data); $c->_save_session; } } sub _load_session_expires { my $c = shift; return $c->_session_expires if $c->_tried_loading_session_expires; $c->_tried_loading_session_expires(1); if ( my $sid = $c->sessionid ) { my $expires = $c->get_session_data("expires:$sid") || 0; if ( $expires >= time() ) { $c->_session_expires( $expires ); return $expires; } else { $c->delete_session( "session expired" ); return 0; } } return; } sub _load_session { my $c = shift; return $c->_session if $c->_tried_loading_session_data; $c->_tried_loading_session_data(1); if ( my $sid = $c->sessionid ) { if ( $c->_load_session_expires ) { # > 0 my $session_data = $c->get_session_data("session:$sid") || return; $c->_session($session_data); no warnings 'uninitialized'; # ne __address if ( $c->_session_plugin_config->{verify_address} && exists $session_data->{__address} && $session_data->{__address} ne $c->request->address ) { $c->log->warn( "Deleting session $sid due to address mismatch (" . $session_data->{__address} . " != " . $c->request->address . ")" ); $c->delete_session("address mismatch"); return; } if ( $c->_session_plugin_config->{verify_user_agent} && $session_data->{__user_agent} ne $c->request->user_agent ) { $c->log->warn( "Deleting session $sid due to user agent mismatch (" . $session_data->{__user_agent} . " != " . $c->request->user_agent . ")" ); $c->delete_session("user agent mismatch"); return; } $c->log->debug(qq/Restored session "$sid"/) if $c->debug; $c->_session_data_sig( Object::Signature::signature($session_data) ) if $session_data; $c->_expire_session_keys; return $session_data; } } return; } sub _load_flash { my $c = shift; return $c->_flash if $c->_tried_loading_flash_data; $c->_tried_loading_flash_data(1); if ( my $sid = $c->sessionid ) { my $session_data = $c->session; $c->_flash($session_data->{__flash}); if ( my $flash_data = $c->_flash ) { $c->_flash_key_hashes({ map { $_ => Object::Signature::signature( \$flash_data->{$_} ) } keys %$flash_data }); return $flash_data; } } return; } sub _expire_session_keys { my ( $c, $data ) = @_; my $now = time; my $expire_times = ( $data || $c->_session || {} )->{__expire_keys} || {}; foreach my $key ( grep { $expire_times->{$_} < $now } keys %$expire_times ) { delete $c->_session->{$key}; delete $expire_times->{$key}; } } sub _clear_session_instance_data { my $c = shift; $c->$_(undef) for @session_data_accessors; $c->maybe::next::method(@_); # allow other plugins to hook in on this } sub change_session_id { my $c = shift; my $sessiondata = $c->session; my $oldsid = $c->sessionid; my $newsid = $c->create_session_id; if ($oldsid) { $c->log->debug(qq/change_sessid: deleting session data from "$oldsid"/) if $c->debug; $c->delete_session_data("${_}:${oldsid}") for qw/session expires flash/; } $c->log->debug(qq/change_sessid: storing session data to "$newsid"/) if $c->debug; $c->store_session_data( "session:$newsid" => $sessiondata ); return $newsid; } sub delete_session { my ( $c, $msg ) = @_; $c->log->debug("Deleting session" . ( defined($msg) ? "($msg)" : '(no reason given)') ) if $c->debug; # delete the session data if ( my $sid = $c->sessionid ) { $c->delete_session_data("${_}:${sid}") for qw/session expires flash/; $c->delete_session_id($sid); } # reset the values in the context object # see the BEGIN block $c->_clear_session_instance_data; $c->_session_delete_reason($msg); } sub session_delete_reason { my $c = shift; $c->session_is_valid; # check that it was loaded $c->_session_delete_reason(@_); } sub session_expires { my $c = shift; if ( defined( my $expires = $c->_extended_session_expires ) ) { return $expires; } elsif ( defined( $expires = $c->_load_session_expires ) ) { return $c->extend_session_expires( $expires ); } else { return 0; } } sub extend_session_expires { my ( $c, $expires ) = @_; $c->_extended_session_expires( my $updated = $c->calculate_extended_session_expires( $expires ) ); $c->extend_session_id( $c->sessionid, $updated ); return $updated; } sub calculate_initial_session_expires { my $c = shift; return ( time() + $c->_session_plugin_config->{expires} ); } sub calculate_extended_session_expires { my ( $c, $prev ) = @_; $c->calculate_initial_session_expires; } sub reset_session_expires { my ( $c, $sid ) = @_; my $exp = $c->calculate_initial_session_expires; $c->_session_expires( $exp ); # # since we're setting _session_expires directly, make load_session_expires # actually use that value. # $c->_tried_loading_session_expires(1); $c->_extended_session_expires( $exp ); $exp; } sub sessionid { my $c = shift; return $c->_sessionid || $c->_load_sessionid; } sub _load_sessionid { my $c = shift; return if $c->_tried_loading_session_id; $c->_tried_loading_session_id(1); if ( defined( my $sid = $c->get_session_id ) ) { if ( $c->validate_session_id($sid) ) { # temporarily set the inner key, so that validation will work $c->_sessionid($sid); return $sid; } else { my $err = "Tried to set invalid session ID '$sid'"; $c->log->error($err); Catalyst::Exception->throw($err); } } return; } sub session_is_valid { my $c = shift; # force a check for expiry, but also __address, etc if ( $c->_load_session ) { return 1; } else { return; } } sub validate_session_id { my ( $c, $sid ) = @_; $sid and $sid =~ /^[a-f\d]+$/i; } sub session { my $c = shift; my $session = $c->_session || $c->_load_session || do { $c->create_session_id_if_needed; $c->initialize_session_data; }; if (@_) { my $new_values = @_ > 1 ? { @_ } : $_[0]; croak('session takes a hash or hashref') unless ref $new_values; for my $key (keys %$new_values) { $session->{$key} = $new_values->{$key}; } } $session; } sub keep_flash { my ( $c, @keys ) = @_; my $href = $c->_flash_keep_keys || $c->_flash_keep_keys({}); (@{$href}{@keys}) = ((undef) x @keys); } sub _flash_data { my $c = shift; $c->_flash || $c->_load_flash || do { $c->create_session_id_if_needed; $c->_flash( {} ); }; } sub _set_flash { my $c = shift; if (@_) { my $items = @_ > 1 ? {@_} : $_[0]; croak('flash takes a hash or hashref') unless ref $items; @{ $c->_flash }{ keys %$items } = values %$items; } } sub flash { my $c = shift; $c->_flash_data; $c->_set_flash(@_); return $c->_flash; } sub clear_flash { my $c = shift; #$c->delete_session_data("flash:" . $c->sessionid); # should this be in here? or delayed till finalization? $c->_flash_key_hashes({}); $c->_flash_keep_keys({}); $c->_flash({}); } sub session_expire_key { my ( $c, %keys ) = @_; my $now = time; @{ $c->session->{__expire_keys} }{ keys %keys } = map { $now + $_ } values %keys; } sub initialize_session_data { my $c = shift; my $now = time; return $c->_session( { __created => $now, __updated => $now, ( $c->_session_plugin_config->{verify_address} ? ( __address => $c->request->address||'' ) : () ), ( $c->_session_plugin_config->{verify_user_agent} ? ( __user_agent => $c->request->user_agent||'' ) : () ), } ); } sub generate_session_id { my $c = shift; my $digest = $c->_find_digest(); $digest->add( $c->session_hash_seed() ); return $digest->hexdigest; } sub create_session_id_if_needed { my $c = shift; $c->create_session_id unless $c->sessionid; } sub create_session_id { my $c = shift; my $sid = $c->generate_session_id; $c->log->debug(qq/Created session "$sid"/) if $c->debug; $c->_sessionid($sid); $c->reset_session_expires; $c->set_session_id($sid); return $sid; } my $counter; sub session_hash_seed { my $c = shift; return join( "", ++$counter, time, rand, $$, {}, overload::StrVal($c), ); } my $usable; sub _find_digest () { unless ($usable) { foreach my $alg (qw/SHA-1 SHA-256 MD5/) { if ( eval { Digest->new($alg) } ) { $usable = $alg; last; } } Catalyst::Exception->throw( "Could not find a suitable Digest module. Please install " . "Digest::SHA1, Digest::SHA, or Digest::MD5" ) unless $usable; } return Digest->new($usable); } sub dump_these { my $c = shift; ( $c->maybe::next::method(), $c->_sessionid ? ( [ "Session ID" => $c->sessionid ], [ Session => $c->session ], ) : () ); } sub get_session_id { shift->maybe::next::method(@_) } sub set_session_id { shift->maybe::next::method(@_) } sub delete_session_id { shift->maybe::next::method(@_) } sub extend_session_id { shift->maybe::next::method(@_) } __PACKAGE__; __END__