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max ogden commented on COUCHDB-1304:
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I took a stab at writing a test for this but JavaScript is explicitly blocked from accessing HttpOnly cookies so there's no way in client side JS to verify that a cookie has a Max-Age or Expires attribute on it when it comes back from the POST to /_session. Any ideas on how else to test this?

Also, we can probably just use the couch_httpd_auth timeout value verbatim as the value in the Max-Age property on the AuthSession cookie as described in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265 section 4.1.2.2.
                
> set Expires header on session cookies to make them persistent
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1304
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1304
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: HTTP Interface
>    Affects Versions: 1.1
>            Reporter: max ogden
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: authentication, cookie
>             Fix For: 1.2
>
>   Original Estimate: 1h
>  Remaining Estimate: 1h
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> currently couch's cookie based authentication only sets session cookies as opposed to persistent cookies. the difference between these two is the Expires header. if it is not present most web browsers will delete your cookie when you quit your browser, whereas if it is set then your browser keeps the cookie around until the time specified by the Expires header.
> This sucks for UX because users quit and re-launch their browser they'll have to log in again. 
> I am proposing that we set the Expires header in cookies to match the time in the couch_httpd_auth timeout
> p.s. this is similar to the issue I opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1095 but at that time I didn't realize that what I really wanted was the Expires header

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