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@@ -1,23 +1,22 @@
-sessions
-========
+# sessions
+
[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/gorilla/sessions?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/gorilla/sessions) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/gorilla/sessions.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/gorilla/sessions)
[![Sourcegraph](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gorilla/sessions/-/badge.svg)](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gorilla/sessions?badge)
-
gorilla/sessions provides cookie and filesystem sessions and infrastructure for
custom session backends.
The key features are:
-* Simple API: use it as an easy way to set signed (and optionally
+- Simple API: use it as an easy way to set signed (and optionally
encrypted) cookies.
-* Built-in backends to store sessions in cookies or the filesystem.
-* Flash messages: session values that last until read.
-* Convenient way to switch session persistency (aka "remember me") and set
+- Built-in backends to store sessions in cookies or the filesystem.
+- Flash messages: session values that last until read.
+- Convenient way to switch session persistency (aka "remember me") and set
other attributes.
-* Mechanism to rotate authentication and encryption keys.
-* Multiple sessions per request, even using different backends.
-* Interfaces and infrastructure for custom session backends: sessions from
+- Mechanism to rotate authentication and encryption keys.
+- Multiple sessions per request, even using different backends.
+- Interfaces and infrastructure for custom session backends: sessions from
different stores can be retrieved and batch-saved using a common API.
Let's start with an example that shows the sessions API in a nutshell:
@@ -28,7 +27,11 @@ Let's start with an example that shows the sessions API in a nutshell:
"github.com/gorilla/sessions"
)
- var store = sessions.NewCookieStore([]byte("something-very-secret"))
+ // Note: Don't store your key in your source code. Pass it via an
+ // environmental variable, or flag (or both), and don't accidentally commit it
+ // alongside your code. Ensure your key is sufficiently random - i.e. use Go's
+ // crypto/rand or securecookie.GenerateRandomKey(32) and persist the result.
+ var store = sessions.NewCookieStore([]byte(os.Getenv("SESSION_KEY")))
func MyHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
// Get a session. We're ignoring the error resulted from decoding an
@@ -48,44 +51,32 @@ secret key used to authenticate the session. Inside the handler, we call
some session values in session.Values, which is a `map[interface{}]interface{}`.
And finally we call `session.Save()` to save the session in the response.
-Important Note: If you aren't using gorilla/mux, you need to wrap your handlers
-with
-[`context.ClearHandler`](http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/context#ClearHandler)
-or else you will leak memory! An easy way to do this is to wrap the top-level
-mux when calling http.ListenAndServe:
-
-```go
- http.ListenAndServe(":8080", context.ClearHandler(http.DefaultServeMux))
-```
-
-The ClearHandler function is provided by the gorilla/context package.
-
More examples are available [on the Gorilla
-website](http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions).
+website](https://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions).
## Store Implementations
Other implementations of the `sessions.Store` interface:
-* [github.com/starJammer/gorilla-sessions-arangodb](https://github.com/starJammer/gorilla-sessions-arangodb) - ArangoDB
-* [github.com/yosssi/boltstore](https://github.com/yosssi/boltstore) - Bolt
-* [github.com/srinathgs/couchbasestore](https://github.com/srinathgs/couchbasestore) - Couchbase
-* [github.com/denizeren/dynamostore](https://github.com/denizeren/dynamostore) - Dynamodb on AWS
-* [github.com/savaki/dynastore](https://github.com/savaki/dynastore) - DynamoDB on AWS (Official AWS library)
-* [github.com/bradleypeabody/gorilla-sessions-memcache](https://github.com/bradleypeabody/gorilla-sessions-memcache) - Memcache
-* [github.com/dsoprea/go-appengine-sessioncascade](https://github.com/dsoprea/go-appengine-sessioncascade) - Memcache/Datastore/Context in AppEngine
-* [github.com/kidstuff/mongostore](https://github.com/kidstuff/mongostore) - MongoDB
-* [github.com/srinathgs/mysqlstore](https://github.com/srinathgs/mysqlstore) - MySQL
-* [github.com/EnumApps/clustersqlstore](https://github.com/EnumApps/clustersqlstore) - MySQL Cluster
-* [github.com/antonlindstrom/pgstore](https://github.com/antonlindstrom/pgstore) - PostgreSQL
-* [github.com/boj/redistore](https://github.com/boj/redistore) - Redis
-* [github.com/boj/rethinkstore](https://github.com/boj/rethinkstore) - RethinkDB
-* [github.com/boj/riakstore](https://github.com/boj/riakstore) - Riak
-* [github.com/michaeljs1990/sqlitestore](https://github.com/michaeljs1990/sqlitestore) - SQLite
-* [github.com/wader/gormstore](https://github.com/wader/gormstore) - GORM (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite)
-* [github.com/gernest/qlstore](https://github.com/gernest/qlstore) - ql
-* [github.com/quasoft/memstore](https://github.com/quasoft/memstore) - In-memory implementation for use in unit tests
-* [github.com/lafriks/xormstore](https://github.com/lafriks/xormstore) - XORM (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, TiDB)
+- [github.com/starJammer/gorilla-sessions-arangodb](https://github.com/starJammer/gorilla-sessions-arangodb) - ArangoDB
+- [github.com/yosssi/boltstore](https://github.com/yosssi/boltstore) - Bolt
+- [github.com/srinathgs/couchbasestore](https://github.com/srinathgs/couchbasestore) - Couchbase
+- [github.com/denizeren/dynamostore](https://github.com/denizeren/dynamostore) - Dynamodb on AWS
+- [github.com/savaki/dynastore](https://github.com/savaki/dynastore) - DynamoDB on AWS (Official AWS library)
+- [github.com/bradleypeabody/gorilla-sessions-memcache](https://github.com/bradleypeabody/gorilla-sessions-memcache) - Memcache
+- [github.com/dsoprea/go-appengine-sessioncascade](https://github.com/dsoprea/go-appengine-sessioncascade) - Memcache/Datastore/Context in AppEngine
+- [github.com/kidstuff/mongostore](https://github.com/kidstuff/mongostore) - MongoDB
+- [github.com/srinathgs/mysqlstore](https://github.com/srinathgs/mysqlstore) - MySQL
+- [github.com/EnumApps/clustersqlstore](https://github.com/EnumApps/clustersqlstore) - MySQL Cluster
+- [github.com/antonlindstrom/pgstore](https://github.com/antonlindstrom/pgstore) - PostgreSQL
+- [github.com/boj/redistore](https://github.com/boj/redistore) - Redis
+- [github.com/boj/rethinkstore](https://github.com/boj/rethinkstore) - RethinkDB
+- [github.com/boj/riakstore](https://github.com/boj/riakstore) - Riak
+- [github.com/michaeljs1990/sqlitestore](https://github.com/michaeljs1990/sqlitestore) - SQLite
+- [github.com/wader/gormstore](https://github.com/wader/gormstore) - GORM (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite)
+- [github.com/gernest/qlstore](https://github.com/gernest/qlstore) - ql
+- [github.com/quasoft/memstore](https://github.com/quasoft/memstore) - In-memory implementation for use in unit tests
+- [github.com/lafriks/xormstore](https://github.com/lafriks/xormstore) - XORM (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, TiDB)
## License