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<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_session</h1>
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-<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/mod/mod_session.html" title="English">&nbsp;en&nbsp;</a></p>
+<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/mod/mod_session.html" title="English">&nbsp;en&nbsp;</a> |
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<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Session support</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
@@ -82,7 +86,7 @@
<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session_cookie.html">mod_session_cookie</a></code></li>
<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session_crypto.html">mod_session_crypto</a></code></li>
<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session_dbd.html">mod_session_dbd</a></code></li>
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+</ul><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
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<h2><a name="whatisasession" id="whatisasession">What is a session?</a></h2>
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where the session will be stored. In this example, the session will be
stored on the browser, in a cookie called <code>session</code>.</p>
- <div class="example"><h3>Browser based session</h3><p><code>
- Session On<br />
- SessionCookieName session path=/<br />
- </code></p></div>
+ <div class="example"><h3>Browser based session</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
+Session On
+SessionCookieName session path=/
+ </pre>
+</div>
<p>The session is not useful unless it can be written to or read from. The
following example shows how values can be injected into the session through
the use of a predetermined HTTP response header called
<code>X-Replace-Session</code>.</p>
- <div class="example"><h3>Writing to a session</h3><p><code>
- Session On<br />
- SessionCookieName session path=/<br />
- SessionHeader X-Replace-Session<br />
- </code></p></div>
+ <div class="example"><h3>Writing to a session</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
+Session On
+SessionCookieName session path=/
+SessionHeader X-Replace-Session
+ </pre>
+</div>
<p>The header should contain name value pairs expressed in the same format
as a query string in a URL, as in the example below. Setting a key to the
empty string has the effect of removing that key from the session.</p>
- <div class="example"><h3>CGI to write to a session</h3><p><code>
- #!/bin/bash<br />
- echo "Content-Type: text/plain"<br />
- echo "X-Replace-Session: key1=foo&amp;key2=&amp;key3=bar"<br />
- echo<br />
- env<br />
- </code></p></div>
+ <div class="example"><h3>CGI to write to a session</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-sh">
+#!/bin/bash
+echo "Content-Type: text/plain"
+echo "X-Replace-Session: key1=foo&amp;key2=&amp;key3=bar"
+echo
+env
+ </pre>
+</div>
<p>If configured, the session can be read back from the HTTP_SESSION
environment variable. By default, the session is kept private, so this
has to be explicitly turned on with the
<code class="directive"><a href="#sessionenv">SessionEnv</a></code> directive.</p>
- <div class="example"><h3>Read from a session</h3><p><code>
- Session On<br />
- SessionEnv On<br />
- SessionCookieName session path=/<br />
- SessionHeader X-Replace-Session<br />
- </code></p></div>
+ <div class="example"><h3>Read from a session</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
+Session On
+SessionEnv On
+SessionCookieName session path=/
+SessionHeader X-Replace-Session
+ </pre>
+</div>
<p>Once read, the CGI variable <code>HTTP_SESSION</code> should contain
the value <code>key1=foo&amp;key3=bar</code>.</p>
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placed on the browser using the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session_crypto.html">mod_session_crypto</a></code>
module.</p>
- <div class="example"><h3>Browser based encrypted session</h3><p><code>
- Session On<br />
- SessionCryptoPassphrase secret<br />
- SessionCookieName session path=/<br />
- </code></p></div>
+ <div class="example"><h3>Browser based encrypted session</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
+Session On
+SessionCryptoPassphrase secret
+SessionCookieName session path=/
+ </pre>
+</div>
<p>The session will be automatically decrypted on load, and encrypted on
save by Apache, the underlying application using the session need have
@@ -250,11 +259,12 @@
<p>Standard cookie parameters can be specified after the name of the cookie,
as in the example below.</p>
- <div class="example"><h3>Setting cookie parameters</h3><p><code>
- Session On<br />
- SessionCryptoPassphrase secret<br />
- SessionCookieName session path=/private;domain=example.com;httponly;secure;<br />
- </code></p></div>
+ <div class="example"><h3>Setting cookie parameters</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
+Session On
+SessionCryptoPassphrase secret
+SessionCookieName session path=/private;domain=example.com;httponly;secure;
+ </pre>
+</div>
<p>In cases where the Apache server forms the frontend for backend origin servers,
it is possible to have the session cookies removed from the incoming HTTP headers using
@@ -272,16 +282,17 @@
<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_form.html">mod_auth_form</a></code> saves the user's login name and password within
the session.</p>
- <div class="example"><h3>Form based authentication</h3><p><code>
- Session On<br />
- SessionCryptoPassphrase secret<br />
- SessionCookieName session path=/<br />
- AuthFormProvider file<br />
- AuthUserFile conf/passwd<br />
- AuthType form<br />
- AuthName realm<br />
- ...<br />
- </code></p></div>
+ <div class="example"><h3>Form based authentication</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
+Session On
+SessionCryptoPassphrase secret
+SessionCookieName session path=/
+AuthFormProvider file
+AuthUserFile conf/passwd
+AuthType form
+AuthName realm
+#...
+ </pre>
+</div>
<p>See the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_form.html">mod_auth_form</a></code> module for documentation and complete
examples.</p>
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