Drop Remember-me cookie's Expires when the box is unchecked

Without Remember-me the session cookie was still being written via
`cookies.signed.permanent`, so it survived browser restart on shared
devices — surprising for a user who explicitly opted out of Remember-me.
Issue a browser-session cookie (no Expires) when remember_me is off;
the server-side Session#expires_at still bounds the 24h / 30d window.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Dan Milne
2026-05-02 23:54:09 +10:00
parent cc93f72f0a
commit 556656d090
2 changed files with 27 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -73,7 +73,15 @@ module Authentication
# Set domain for cross-subdomain authentication if we can extract it
cookie_options[:domain] = domain if domain.present?
cookies.signed.permanent[:session_id] = cookie_options
# When "Remember me" is off, issue a browser-session cookie (no Expires)
# so closing the browser signs the user out — especially important on
# shared devices. The server Session#expires_at still enforces the
# 24h / 30d window regardless.
if remember_me
cookies.signed.permanent[:session_id] = cookie_options
else
cookies.signed[:session_id] = cookie_options
end
# Create a one-time token for immediate forward auth after authentication
# This solves the race condition where browser hasn't processed cookie yet

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@@ -30,4 +30,22 @@ class SessionsControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
assert_redirected_to signin_path
assert_empty cookies[:session_id]
end
test "session cookie has no Expires attribute when remember_me is off" do
post session_path, params: {email_address: @user.email_address, password: "password", remember_me: "0"}
set_cookie = Array(response.headers["Set-Cookie"]).find { |c| c.start_with?("session_id=") }
assert set_cookie, "session_id cookie should be set"
refute_match(/expires=/i, set_cookie,
"without Remember me, the session cookie must be a browser-session cookie (no Expires)")
end
test "session cookie has long-lived Expires attribute when remember_me is on" do
post session_path, params: {email_address: @user.email_address, password: "password", remember_me: "1"}
set_cookie = Array(response.headers["Set-Cookie"]).find { |c| c.start_with?("session_id=") }
assert set_cookie, "session_id cookie should be set"
assert_match(/expires=/i, set_cookie,
"with Remember me, the cookie should have an Expires attribute")
end
end