I appreciate the report. The cookie spec is a bit vague on this and
unfortunately browsers handle the corner cases differently. Please
grab the latest snapshot later today (I just checked in a fix) which
should resolve this but also keep the fix for the original issue in
place.

Kalle


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Mike K <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Having grabbed the latest shiro-1.10 snapshot  I started experiencing login
> issues in the application. Digging in further, I have noticed the following
> difference with cookies dropped at login between the earlier code drop and
> the newest:
> OLD:
> Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=6fd35335-6dd6-4d37-9813-71264e027bfe; Path=/service;
> HttpOnly
> NEW:
> Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=b11cc1ab-d812-44e5-af15-a291bdf3a6d7; Path=/service;
> Max-Age=-1; HttpOnly
>
>
> The difference is the setting of Max-Age=1, which seems like the right thing
> to do  according to http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html. Unfortunately
> this causes Firefox to delete the cookie and not forward it on subsequent
> requests. IE is not affected by this change.
>
> This seems like a bug (even if it really is in Firefox), but perhaps the
> devs here have a suggestion to mitigate this.
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