Spring Security RememberMe Services with Session Cookie

Question

I am using Spring Security\'s RememberMe Services to keep a user authenticated.

I would like to find a simple way to have the RememberMe cookie set as a session cookie

Answer 1

Spring Security 3 does not offer configuration of how the cookie is generated. You have to override the default behaviour:

import javax.servlet.http.Cookie;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.PersistentTokenBasedRememberMeServices;

/** Cookie expires on session. */
 public class PersistentTokenBasedRememberMeServicesCustom extends
   PersistentTokenBasedRememberMeServices {

  /** only needed because super throws exception. */
  public PersistentTokenBasedRememberMeServicesCustom() throws Exception {
    super();
  }

  /** Copy of code of inherited class + setting cookieExpiration, */
  @Override
  protected void setCookie(String[] tokens, int maxAge,
      HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
    String cookieValue = encodeCookie(tokens);
    Cookie cookie = new Cookie(getCookieName(), cookieValue);
    //cookie.setMaxAge(maxAge); 
    cookie.setPath("/");
    cookie.setSecure(false); // no getter available in super, so always false

    response.addCookie(cookie);
  }
}

Make sure, you use this customized PersistentTokenBasedRememberMeServices for you're rememberMeService by adding the class name to it's bean configuration: