Sails version: 0.12.14 Node version: v9.2.0 NPM version: 3.10.10 (npm3) DB adapter name: sails-mysql for model storage and connect-redis for session storage DB adapter version: 0.11.5 (sails-mysql) and 3.3.2 (connect-redis) Operating system: CentOS 7 x86-64

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What happened to my app?

Dear developers,

I was configuring the session of my app and found the auto rolling feature for sessions seems to not work, that is, the session.maxAge of the corresponding request will not be auto reseted if session is not modified.

I have read https://github.com/expressjs/session#cookie carefully but I still can not figure out what is wrong with my config/local.js and my app 😦 .

For some political reason I cannot access to http://bit.ly/sails-issue-repro so I am not sure whether my issue reproducing repo meets your requirements 😦 .

My configurations

Session storage adapter: connect-redis

Redis version: 4.0.6

config/local.js:

module.exports = {
  port: 80,
  session: {
    adapter: 'connect-redis',
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    ttl: 7 * 24 * 3600, // One week
    db: 0,
    prefix: 'sess:',
    cookie: {
      resave: false,
      maxAge: 7 * 24 * 3600 * 1000, // One week
      rolling: true,
      saveUninitialized: false
    },
    routesDisabled: ['GET /js/*', 'GET /css/*', 'GET /images/*']
  },
  models: {
    migrate: 'safe',
    connection: 'localDiskDb'
    // connection: 'mysql'
  }
}

Issue reproducing repository

sails-issue-repro-session-rolling

Issue reproducing steps

1. Run app.
2. Visit http://localhost/test/wr?str=rua and check the expiration date of the session cookie on a browser. This request will modify session and therefore the session is initialized and will be saved.
3. Wait for some time, say, 1 minute.
4. Visit http://localhost/test/rd and check the expiration date of the session cookie on a browser again. This request will not modify session.

You will find the expiration date of the session cookie will not be reset until you modify session by visiting http://localhost/test/wr?str=someDifferentString again.

Finally

The following configurations cannot help, too.

// config/local.js
module.exports = {
  port: 80,
  session: {
    adapter: 'connect-redis',
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    ttl: 7 * 24 * 3600, // One week
    db: 0,
    prefix: 'sess:',
    cookie: {
      resave: true, // Hey, there
      maxAge: 7 * 24 * 3600 * 1000, // One week
      rolling: true,
      saveUninitialized: false
    },
    routesDisabled: ['GET /js/*', 'GET /css/*', 'GET /images/*']
  },
  models: {
    migrate: 'safe',
    connection: 'localDiskDb'
    // connection: 'mysql'
  }
}

or

// config/local.js
module.exports = {
  port: 80,
  session: {
    adapter: 'connect-redis',
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    ttl: 7 * 24 * 3600, // One week
    db: 0,
    prefix: 'sess:',
    cookie: {
      resave: true, // Hey, there
      maxAge: 7 * 24 * 3600 * 1000, // One week
      rolling: true,
      saveUninitialized: true // Hey, there
    },
    routesDisabled: ['GET /js/*', 'GET /css/*', 'GET /images/*']
  },
  models: {
    migrate: 'safe',
    connection: 'localDiskDb'
    // connection: 'mysql'
  }
}

That’s all. I suspect this is a bug, probably. I hope some would help me with this issue very soon XD.