NAME

Plack::Middleware::CookieMonster - Eats all your (session) cookies in case Plack::Middleware::StrackTrace ate your HTTP headers.

SYNOPSIS

# Only expire selected cookies
enable 'CookieMonster', cookies_names => [ 'session_cookie', 'foobar_cookie' ];
enable 'StackTrace';

# Only expire selected cookies on a certain path
enable 'CookieMonster', cookies_names => [ 'session_cookie', 'foobar_cookie' ], path => '/foo';
enable 'StackTrace';

# Expire all cookies the browser sent
enable 'CookieMonster';
enable 'StackTrace';

DESCRIPTION

When developing a plack application with Plack::Middleware::StackTrace enabled, you may sometimes find yourself in a situation where your current session for your webapp is borked. Your app would usually clear any session cookies in that case, but since Plack::Middleware::StackTrace will simply throw away any HTTP headers your app sends, you'll be stuck to that session.

Plack::Middleware::CookieMonster will detect that Plack::Middleware::StackTrace rendered a stack trace and will add Set-Cookie headers to the response so that the cookies you configured or all cookies that the browser sent will be expired.

This middleware was written because I was too lazy to search the "clear cookies" control in my browser and because I think we should automate as much as possible.

CONFIGURATION

• cookie_names

  You can provide a cookie_names parameter, pointing to an array-ref containing the names of all the cookies you want to clear. Otherwise, all cookies the browser sent will be expired.

• path

  If your session cookie comes with a path parameter, configure this middleware to expire the cookie(s) on that path. Otherwise, confusion will rule.

AUTHOR

Manni Heumann

SEE ALSO

Plack::Middleware::StackTrace

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.