Debug a cookie getting deleted whilst browsing site - google-chrome

I have a Magento 2 store where the cookie notice keeps reappearing. The notice is hidden when below cookie is set:
Name: user_allowed_save_cookie
Value: %7B%222%22%3A1%7D
Domain: .www.domain.com
Expires: 2022-08-20T11:24:09.000Z
SameSite: Lax
The cookie notice however will reappear during browsing and checking browser cookies shows this cookie to no longer be set.
I have seen this happen on 3 client PC's running Chrome and can be up to 10 mins to a few hours before it clears itself however unsure the pattern or what is causing this.
Expires set for a year, the cookie has a value, domain looks ok (although has a full stop at the start however apparently that means it should work on subdomains as well). Can see mostly around 40 cookies showing for site so feel it is not hitting any limits.
Cloudflare is running in front of this site and did not notice this problem until pushing it through Cloudflare so wondering if that could cause this kind of issue?

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ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR in Chrome. Works in Firefox [duplicate]

I'm currently working on a website, which triggers a net::ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR 200 error on Google Chrome. I'm not sure exactly what can provoke this error, I just noticed it pops out only when accessing the website in HTTPS. I can't be 100% sure it is related, but it looks like it prevents JavaScript to be executed properly.
For instance, the following scenario happens :
I'm accessing the website in HTTPS
My Twitter feed integrated via https://publish.twitter.com isn't loaded at all
I can notice in the console the ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR
If I remove the code to load the Twitter feed, the error remains
If I access the website in HTTP, the Twitter feed appears and the error disappears
Google Chrome is the only web browser triggering the error: it works well on both Edge and Firefox.
(NB: I tried with Safari, and I have a similar kcferrordomaincfnetwork 303 error)
I was wondering if it could be related to the header returned by the server since there is this '200' mention in the error, and a 404 / 500 page isn't triggering anything.
Thing is the error isn't documented at all. Google search gives me very few results. Moreover, I noticed it appears on very recent Google Chrome releases; the error doesn't pop on v.64.X, but it does on v.75+ (regardless of the OS; I'm working on Mac tho).
Might be related to Website OK on Firefox but not on Safari (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 303) neither Chrome (net::ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR)
Findings from further investigations are the following:
error doesn't pop on the exact same page if server returns 404 instead of 2XX
error doesn't pop on local with a HTTPS certificate
error pops on a different server (both are OVH's), which uses a different certificate
error pops no matter what PHP version is used, from 5.6 to 7.3 (framework used : Cakephp 2.10)
As requested, below is the returned header for the failing ressource, which is the whole web page. Even if the error is triggering on each page having a HTTP header 200, those pages are always loading on client's browser, but sometimes an element is missing (in my exemple, the external Twitter feed). Every other asset on the Network tab has a success return, except the whole document itself.
Google Chrome header (with error):
Firefox header (without error):
A curl --head --http2 request in console returns the following success:
HTTP/2 200
date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:04:51 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length: 127089
set-cookie: SERVERID31396=2341116; path=/; max-age=900
server: Apache
x-powered-by: PHP/7.2
set-cookie: xxxxx=0919c5563fc87d601ab99e2f85d4217d; expires=Fri, 04-Oct-2019 12:04:51 GMT; Max-Age=14400; path=/; secure; HttpOnly
vary: Accept-Encoding
Trying to go deeper with the chrome://net-export/ and https://netlog-viewer.appspot.com tools is telling me the request ends with a RST_STREAM :
t=123354 [st=5170] HTTP2_SESSION_RECV_RST_STREAM
--> error_code = "2 (INTERNAL_ERROR)"
--> stream_id = 1
For what I read in this other post, "In HTTP/2, if the client wants to abort the request, it sends a RST_STREAM. When the server receives a RST_STREAM, it will stop sending DATA frames to the client, thereby stopping the response (or the download). The connection is still usable for other requests, and requests/responses that were concurrent with the one that has been aborted may continue to progress.
[...]
It is possible that by the time the RST_STREAM travels from the client to the server, the whole content of the request is in transit and will arrive to the client, which will discard it. However, for large response contents, sending a RST_STREAM may have a good chance to arrive to the server before the whole response content is sent, and therefore will save bandwidth."
The described behavior is the same as the one I can observe. But that would mean the browser is the culprit, and then I wouldn't understand why it happens on two identical pages with one having a 200 header and the other a 404 (same goes if I disable JS).
In my case it was - no disk space left on the web server.
For several weeks I was also annoyed by this "bug":
net :: ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR 200
In my case, it occurred on images generated by PHP.
It was at header() level, and on this one in particular:
header ('Content-Length:'. Filesize($cache_file));
It did obviously not return the exact size, so I deleted it and everything works fine now.
So Chrome checks the accuracy of the data transmitted via the headers, and if it does not correspond, it fails.
EDIT
I found why content-length via filesize was being miscalculated: the GZIP compression is active on the PHP files, so excluding the file in question will fix the problem. Put this code in the .htaccess:
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ^ / thumb.php no-gzip -vary
It works and we keep the header Content-length.
I am finally able to solve this error after researching some things I thought is causing the error for 24 errors. I visited all the pages across the web. And I am happy to say that I have found the solution.
If you are using NGINX, then set gzip to off and add proxy_max_temp_file_size 0; in the server block like I have shown below.
server {
...
...
gzip off;
proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000/;
....
Why? Because what actually happening was all the contents were being compressed twice and we don't want that, right?!
The fix for me was setting minBytesPerSecond in IIS to 0. This setting can be found in system.applicationHost/webLimits in IIS's Configuration Editor. By default it's set to 240.
It turns out that some web servers will cut the connection to a client if the server's data throughput to the client passes below a certain limit. This is to protect against "slow drip" denial of service attacks. However, this limit can also be triggered in cases where an innocent user requests many resources all at once (such as lots of images on a single page), and the server is forced to ration the bandwidth for each request so much that it causes one or more requests to drop below the throughput limit, which causes the server to cut the connection and shows up as net::ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR in Chrome.
For example, if you request 11 GIF images all at once, and each individual GIF is 10 megabytes (11 * 10 = 110 megabytes total), and the server is only able to serve at 100 megabytes per second (per thread), the server will have to slow the throughput on the last GIF image until the first 10 are finished. If the throughput on that last GIF is slowed so much that it drops below the minBytesPerSecond limit, it will cut the connection.
I was able to resolve this by following these steps:
I used Chrome's Network Log Export tool at chrome://net-export/ to see exactly what was behind the ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR error. I started the log, reproduced the error, and stopped the log.
I imported the log into the log viewer at https://netlog-viewer.appspot.com/#import, and saw an interesting event titled HTTP2_SESSION_RECV_RST_STREAM, with error code 8 (CANCEL).
I did some Googling on the term "RST_STREAM" (which appears to be an abbreviated form of "reset stream") and found a discussion between some people talking about an IIS setting called minBytesPerSecond (discussion here: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/aeb01c46-bcdf-40ed-a417-8a3558221137). I also found another discussion where there was some debate about whether minBytesPerSecond was intended to protect against slow HTTP DoS (slow drip) attacks (discussion here: IIS 8.5 low minBytesPerSecond not working against slow HTTP POST). In any case, I learned that IIS uses minBytesPerSecond to determine whether to cancel a connection if it cannot sustain the minimum throughput. This is relevant in cases where a single user makes many requests to a large resource, and each new connection ends up starving all the other unfinished ones, to the point where some may fall below the minBytesPerSecond threshold.
To confirm that the server was canceling requests due to a minBytesPerSecond error, I checked my server's HTTPERR log at c:\windows\system32\logfiles\httperr. Sure enough, I opened the file and did a text search for "MinBytesPerSecond" and there were tons of entries for it.
So after I changed the minBytesPerSecond to 0, I was no longer able to reproduce the ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR error. So, it appears that the ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR error was being caused by my server (IIS) canceling the request because the throughput rate from my server fell below the minBytesPerSecond threshold.
So for all you reading this right now, if you're not using IIS, maybe there is a similar setting related to minimum throughput rate you can play with to see if it gets rid of the ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR error.
I experienced a similar problem, I was getting ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR on one of the HTTP GET requests.
I noticed that the Chrome update was pending, so I updated the Chrome browser to the latest version and the error was gone next time when I relaunched the browser.
I encountered this because the http2 server closed the connection when sending a big response to the Chrome.
Why?
Because it is just a setting of the http2 server, named WriteTimeout.
I had this problem when having a Nginx server that exposing the node-js application to the external world. The Nginx made the file (css, js, ...) compressed with gzip and with Chrome it looked like the same.
The problem solved when we found that the node-js server is also compressed the content with gzip. In someway, this double compressing leading to this problem. Canceling node-js compression solved the issue.
I didn't figure out what exactly was happening, but I found a solution.
The CDN feature of OVH was the culprit. I had it installed on my host service but disabled for my domain because I didn't need it.
Somehow, when I enable it, everything works.
I think it forces Apache to use the HTTP2 protocol, but what I don't understand is that there indeed was an HTTP2 mention in each of my headers, which I presume means the server was answering using the right protocol.
So the solution for my very particular case was to enable the CDN option on all concerned domains.
If anyone understands better what could have happened here, feel free to share explanations.
I faced this error several times and, it was due to transferring large resources(larger than 3MB) from server to client.
This error is currently being fixed: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/2001234
But it helped me, changing nginx settings:
turning on gzip;
add_header 'Cache-Control' 'no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate, max-age=0';
expires off;
In my case, Nginx acts as a reverse proxy for Node.js application.
We experienced this problem on pages with long Base64 strings. The problem occurs because we use CloudFlare.
Details: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/err-http2-protocol-error/119619.
Key section from the forum post:
After further testing on Incognito tabs on multiple browsers, then
doing the changes on the code from a BASE64 to a real .png image, the
issue never happened again, in ANY browser. The .png had around 500kb
before becoming a base64,so CloudFlare has issues with huge lines of
text on same line (since base64 is a long string) as a proxy between
the domain and the heroku. As mentioned before, directly hitting
Heroku url also never happened the issue.
The temporary hack is to disable HTTP/2 on CloudFlare.
Hope someone else can produce a better solution that doesn't require disabling HTTP/2 on CloudFlare.
In our case, the reason was invalid header.
As mentioned in Edit 4:
take the logs
in the viewer choose Events
chose HTTP2_SESSION
Look for something similar:
HTTP2_SESSION_RECV_INVALID_HEADER
--> error = "Invalid character in header name."
--> header_name = "charset=utf-8"
By default nginx limits upload size to 1MB.
With client_max_body_size you can set your own limit, as in
location /uploads {
...
client_max_body_size 100M;
}
You can set this setting also on the http or server block instead (See here).
This fixed my issue with net::ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR
Just posting here to let people know that ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR in Chrome can also be caused by an unexpected response to a CORS request.
In our case, the OPTIONS request was successful, but the following PUT that should upload an image to our infrastructure was denied with a 410 (because of a missing configuration allowing uploads) resulting in Chrome issuing a ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR.
When checking in Firefox, the error message was much more helpful:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.[...] (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing). Status code: 410.
My recommendation would be to check an alternative browser in this case.
I'm not convinced this was the issue but through cPanel I'd noticed the PHP version was on 5.6 and changing it to 7.3 seemed to fix it. This was for a WordPress site. I noticed I could access images and generic PHP files but loading WordPress itself caused the error.
Seems like many issues may cause ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR: in my case it was a minor syntax error in a php-generated header, Content-Type : text/plain . You might notice the space before the colon... that was it. Works no problem when the colon is right next to the header name like Content-Type: text/plain. Only took a million hours to figure out... The error happens with Chrome only, Firefox loaded the object without complaint.
If simply restarting e.g., Chrome Canary, with a fresh profile fixes the problem, then one surely
is the "victim" of a failed Chrome Variation! Yes, there are ways to opt out of being a Guinea pig in Chrome's field testing.
In my case
header params can not set null or empty string
{
'Authorization': Authorization //Authorization can't use null or ''
}
I got the same issue (asp, c# - HttpPostedFileBase) when posting a file that was larger than 1MB (even though application doesn't have any limitation for file size), for me the simplification of model class helped. If you got this issue, try to remove some parts of the model, and see if it will help in any way. Sounds strange, but worked for me.
I have been experiencing this problem for the last week now as I've been trying to send DELETE requests to my PHP server through AJAX. I recently upgraded my hosting plan where I now have an SSL Certificate on my host which stores the PHP and JS files. Since adding an SSL Certificate I no longer experience this issue. Hoping this helps with this strange error.
I also faced this error and I believe there can be multiple reasons behind it. Mine was, ARR was getting timed-out.
In my case, browser was making a request to a reverse proxy site where I have set my redirection rules and that proxy site is eventually requesting the actual site. Now for huge data it was taking more than 2 minutes 5 seconds and Application Request Routing timeout for my server was set to 2 minutes. I fixed this by increasing the ARR timeout by below steps:
1. Go to IIS
2. Click on server name
3. Click on Application Request Routing Cache in the middle pane
4. Click Server Proxy settings in right pane
5. Increase the timeout
6. Click Apply
My team saw this on a single javascript file we were serving up. Every other file worked fine. We switched from http2 back to http1.1 and then either net::ERR_INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_ENCODING or ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH. We ultimately discovered that there was a corporate filter (Trustwave) that was erroneously detecting an "infoleak" (we suspect it detected something in our file/filename that resembled a social security number). Getting corporate to tweak this filter resolved our issues.
For my situation this error was caused by having circular references in json sent from the server when using an ORM for parent/child relationships. So the quick and easy solution was
JsonConvert.SerializeObject(myObject, new JsonSerializerSettings { ReferenceLoopHandling = ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore })
The better solution is to create DTOs that do not contain the references on both sides (parent/child).
I had another case that caused an ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR that hasn't been mentioned here yet. I had created a cross reference in IOC (Unity), where I had class A referencing class B (through a couple of layers), and class B referencing class A. Bad design on my part really. But I created a new interface/class for the method in class A that I was calling from class B, and that cleared it up.
I hit this issue working with Server Sent Events. The problem was solved when I noticed that the domain name I used to initiate the connection included a trailing slash, e.g. https://foo.bar.bam/ failed with ERR_HTTP_PROTOCOL_ERROR while https://foo.bar.bam worked.
In my case (nginx on windows proxying an app while serving static assets on its own) page was showing multiple assets including 14 bigger pictures; those errors were shown for about 5 of those images exactly after 60 seconds; in my case it was a default send_timeout of 60s making those image requests fail; increasing the send_timeout made it work
I am not sure what is causing nginx on windows to serve those files so slow - it is only 11.5MB of resources which takes nginx almost 2 minutes to serve but I guess it is subject for another thread
In my case, the problem was that Bitdefender provided me with a local ssl certificate, when the website was still without a certificate.
When I disabled Bitdefender and reloaded the page, the actual valid server ssl certificate was loaded, and the ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR was gone.
In my case, it was WordPress that now requires PHP 7.4 and I was running 7.2.
As soon as I updated, the errors disappeared.
Happened again and this time it was the ad-blocker that didn't like the name of my images (yt.png, ig.png, url.png). I added a prefix and all loaded ok.
In my case, the time on my computer (browser client) was out of date, synced it using settings in windows, and then the error got away
I had line breaks in my Content-Security-Policy in my nginx.conf that produced this error when used in an docker container running in Kube in GCP (serving angular but I doubt that matters).
Putting them all back on the same line and the problem went away.
A curl -v helped diagnose.
http2 error: Invalid HTTP header field was received: frame type: 1, stream: 1, name: [content-security-policy], value: [script-src 'unsafe-inline' 'self....
It was much easier to edit on separate lines but never again!

Storing cookie with SameSite option as `Any kind of connection`

Im working on a .NetCore MVC project.
As the title suggests my goal is to store a cookie that will eventually be accessible through an iframe.
In order to achieve that this is what I did -
Startup.cs -
app.UseCookiePolicy(new CookiePolicyOptions
{
MinimumSameSitePolicy = SameSiteMode.None
});
Using the actual CookieOption class -
public void SetCookie(string key, string value, int? expireTime, HttpResponse Response)
{
CookieOptions option = new CookieOptions();
//allow cross-site cookies for iframes
option.SameSite = SameSiteMode.None;
if (expireTime.HasValue)
option.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(expireTime.Value);
else
option.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddMilliseconds(10);
Response.Cookies.Append(key, value, option);
}
Doing the above It seems like it doesn't always work as intended.
Iv'e tested lots of browsers both desktop and mobile.
Just found out that sometimes the cookie is stored successfully like so -
Send for:
Any kind of connection
Accessible to script:
Yes
And sometimes on the same exact chrome version just a different computer its stored like so -
Send for:
Same-site connections only
Accessible to script:
Yes
Which basically means it won't be accessible using iframes.
The problem isn't a specific computer issue as I was managed to duplicate the problem on 3 different computers running the same chrome version which works fine on other computers.
The example above was produced using this chrome version (last version):
Version 80.0.3987.149 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Anyone have an idea how can I overcome that ? gotta make sure cookies will always be accessible using an iframe.
Thanks!
Edit - Attempt with Secure and HttpOnly flag
So iv'e adjusted my code to set the HttpOnly and the Secure flags to true.
The computers that usually worked fine had this cookie settings -
Send for
Secure connections only
Accessible to script
No (HttpOnly)
And it works fine with iframe.
The computer which didn't work before had this cookie settings -
Send for
Secure same-site connections only
Accessible to script
No (HttpOnly)
Which obviously didn't work with an iframe...
Just updating of another approach that didn't work.
Edit 2 - Using fiddler to intercept the cookies response:
So using fiddler to read the cookie this is what it looks like -
Set-Cookie: __cfduid={randomvaluehere}; expires=Fri, 24-Apr-20 17:37:48 GMT; path=/; domain=.domain.com; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax
Set-Cookie: mycookie=mycookievalue; expires=Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:37:49 GMT; path=/; secure; httponly
So seems like the response is storing a cookie with is SameSite=Lax on the apex of the domain, which I don't care about.
I work on a sub-domain which is the second set-cookie that is shown above.
Looks like SameSite=None isn't explicitly presented, should it? if so why wouldn't it seeing the code above?
Also reminding you that exactly that works fine for other browsers or other computers with the same chrome version.
The sample above is exactly the same on computer where it worked and in one that it wasn't.

Chrome ignores the ETag header and just uses the in memory cache/disk cache

If I understand correctly, the flow for using ETags works as described now:
Browser sends the request to the server. Server sends back the image with an ETag
Browser saves the ressource along with the ETag
On the next request, the browser sends the request with the header If-None-Match containing the saved ETag.
When returning a response, chrome dev tools tells me these are my headers
Cache-Control:max-age=7200
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Type:image/png
Date:Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:42:57 GMT
ETag:"b36f59c868d4678033d318a182658e18371df8f5"
Expires:Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:42:57 GMT
Server:nginx
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
X-Debug-Token:873c8f
X-Debug-Token-Link:http://localhost:8081/_profiler/873c8f
Now, when I reload the page, the new image isn't gathered, though. It's saved through Chrome's in-memory cache or disk cache as you can see here
But why is this happening? I sent an ETag so why does the browser not make another request to the server but instead uses it's own cache?
The reason I'm asking is, that we want to cache our images, but as soon as they change, they should be updated immedietely. Why does Chrome do that?
Update
I just noticed that it works as intendent on Firefox, so this seems to be a chrome "feature" and not a configuration one.
Update 2
After setting my new headers for image like this
Cache-Control:max-age=0, private
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Type:image/png
Date:Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:44:57 GMT
ETag:"e5b18bdebe44ed4bba3acb6584d9e6a81692ee27"
Expires:Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:44:57 GMT
Server:nginx
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
X-Debug-Token:3447a6
X-Debug-Token-Link:http://localhost:8081/_profiler/3447a6
Chrome still uses the disk cache to laod the data. This is my nginx now
location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc)$ {
access_log off;
add_header Cache-Control "max-age: 0, must-revalidate";
}
Update 3
I just did some further research. As soon as the Expires tag is set, Chrome uses the in-memory or disk-cache. Same with max-age. Which I don't understand, even when must-revalidate is set, as soon as Expires or max-age=>0 is set, Chrome doesn't reload the ressource.
The server is telling chrome that the resource is good for the next 2 hours (7200 seconds). Presumably your second request was sooner than that.
You would be better served with max-age: 0 or perhaps max-age: 0, must-revalidate. Then while you'll never get a fully-cached operation (not even bothering to hit the server) you can still have the server send 304 Not Modified responses to tell the browser that it can use the cached entity (and update any metadata based on headers if applicable) so while you still have a request-response happening only around 300bytes will be sent rather than however many kilobytes or more the entity is.
For anyone else who might land here, note that Chrome does not cache anything if there are any SSL errors (such as if you're using a self-signed certificate).
Original post that clued me in: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55101722/9536265
Chrome bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=110649 (and it appears they will never fix it, which seems ridiculous since almost all developers will be developing in that very situation)
I have not been able to confirm with documentation, but the behavior appears to be the same with Edge Chromium. Firefox, on the other hand, will happily follow standard cache practices for sites using "Not secure" certificates such as those with imperfectly-matching site names or self-signed certificates. I have not tested Safari.
For ETags to be used and the browser to send the If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers, the cache control must be set to no-cache.
Either by the server using the Cache-Control: no-cache header or by the browser through the Request.cache = 'no-cache' option.
Read more about the cache options here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/cache.
This is an old post but this is how we solved it.
#Musterknabe Comment on your update 3:
The same thing happened with us, even after setting
must-revalidate chrome was not reloading fresh resources. I found out that since resources were already present in clients/browser cache memory they were being served from memory cache and the new request(to get static resources) was not firing resulting. So response headers were not updated with must-revalidate
To fix this problem we used two steps:
1. Changed resource file names - To make sure new request will be fired
2. Added cache-control headers to static files(In startup.cs) - To take care of future static resource file changes. So that going forward we don't have to change the resource file names.
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions
{
OnPrepareResponse = ctx =>
{
const int durationInSeconds = 0;
ctx.Context.Response.Headers[HeaderNames.CacheControl] =
"must-revalidate,max-age=" + durationInSeconds;
}
});
}
Hope it helps.

Chrome cookies not working after tomcat web server reboot

I noticed recently, that when I reboot my Tomcat web server, that the Chrome browser can no longer store cookies. i.e. tomcat uses cookies for http sessions, and the browser can no longer get its http session, also the cookie we use to store the logged in user fails, and the user does not remain logged in.
This seems to be a new issue with Chrome, perhaps from a recent update, I do not remember seeing it before. If I close the Chrome browser, then reopen it, it is fine again (until the server is rebooted again).
The issue does not happen on Firefox, seems like a bug in Chrome.
Has anyone else noticed this issue, or know of a solution?
I found some posts about Chrome/tomcat cookie issues and the suggestion to set,
sessionCookiePathUsesTrailingSlash=false in the context.xml
but this does not fix the issue.
It seems it might be related to the website supporting both https and http, and switching between the two (although it did occur on a website that did not support https as well...)
Okay, I can now recreate the issue, steps are.
connect to website via https
logout / login
connect to website via http
Tomcat JSESSIONID cookie can no longer be stored (oddly user/password cookies are stored)
This only happens on Chrome, and only since the Chrome update that add the "insecure" flag on login pages that use http
Okay I added this to my web.xml
<session-config>
<cookie-config>
<http-only>true</http-only>
<secure>true</secure>
</cookie-config>
</session-config>
This did not fix the issue, but made the issue always occur through http, i.e. make http no longer able to store the JSESSIONID cookie.
I tried <secure>false</secure> but still get the old issue.
So, it is related to this setting at least. Anyone have any ideas?
Logged bug on Chrome,
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=698741
I was able to reproduce your problem with Chrome: Just it is needed to create HttpSession from HTTPS zone. Any subsequent HTTP request will not send the session cookie and any attempt to Set-Cookie:JSESSIONID= through HTTP is ignored by chrome.
The problem is localized when the user switch from HTTPS to HTTP. The HTTPS session cookie is maintained even if server is restarted and is working properly. (I tested with Tomcat6, Tomcat 9, and using an apache proxy for SSL)
This is response header sent by Tomcat when session is created from HTTPS
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=CD93A1038E89DFD39F420CE0DD460C72;path=/cookietest;Secure;HttpOnly
and this one for HTTP (note Secure is missing)
Set-Cookie:SESSIONID=F909DBEEA37960ECDEA9829D336FD239;path=/cookietest;HttpOnly
Chrome ignores the second set-Cookie. On the other hand Firefox and Edge replace the Secure cookie with the not-secured. To determine what the correct behaviour should be I have reviewed RFC2109
4.3.3 Cookie Management
If a user agent receives a Set-Cookie response header whose NAME is
the same as a pre-existing cookie, and whose Domain and Path
attribute values exactly (string) match those of a pre-existing
cookie, the new cookie supersedes the old.
So, It is clear is a chrome bug, as you supposed in the question: The HTTP cookie should replace the one setted by HTTPS
Removing cookie manually from Chrome or invalidating the session at server side makes it work again (if after these actions the session is created using HTTP)
By default the JSESSIONID cookie is created with Secure when is requested from HTTPS. I guess this is the reason that Chrome do not allow to overwrite the cookie. But if you try to set <secure>false</secure> in web.xml Tomcat ignores it and the Set-Cookie header is sent with Secure
<session-config>
<cookie-config>
<http-only>true</http-only>
<secure>true</secure>
</cookie-config>
</session-config>
Changing cookie name, setting sessionCookiePathUsesTrailingSlash or removing HttpOnly has had no effect
I could not find a workaround for this issue except invalidating server session when logged user switch from HTTPS to HTTP.
Finally I opened a bug in chromium: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=698839
UPDATED
The issue is finally marked as Won't Fix because it is an intentional change. See https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4506322921848832
Strict Secure Cookies
This adds restrictions on cookies marked with the 'Secure' attribute. Currently, Secure cookies cannot be accessed by insecure (e.g. HTTP) origins. However, insecure origins can still add Secure cookies, delete them, or indirectly evict them. This feature modifies the cookie jar so that insecure origins cannot in any way touch Secure cookies. This does leave a carve out for cookie eviction, which still may cause the deletion of Secure cookies, but only after all non-Secure cookies are evicted.
I remember seeing this a couple of times and as far as I can remember this was the only recommendation on the matter, as you mentioned:
A possible solution to this might be adding sessionCookiePathUsesTrailingSlash=false in the context.xml and see how that goes.
Some info on the matter from here
A discussion here (same solution)
Hope I didn't confuse the issues and this helps you, let me know with a comment if I need to edit/if worked/if I should delete, thanks!
There is a draft document to deprecate the modification of 'secure' cookies from non-secure origins (submitted by Google). It specifies the recommendations to amend the HTTP State Management Mechanism document.
Abstract of the document:
This document updates RFC6265 by removing the ability for a non-
secure origin to set cookies with a 'secure' flag, and to overwrite
cookies whose 'secure' flag is set. This deprecation improves the
isolation between HTTP and HTTPS origins, and reduces the risk of
malicious interference.
Chrome already implemented this feature in v 52 and same feature is also implemented in Mozilla few days back.
To solve this issue, I think you should connect to website via https only.
The bad way I think is to set sessionCookieName = "JSESSIONIDForHttp" in context.xml
Let Browser's cookie know:
If secure https condition use default "JSESSIONID".
If not secure http condition use "JSESSIONIDForHttp".

Chrome sent duplicate cookie

I am working on a spring MVC app and found a strange issue that only happen on chrome. The logic is:
user request a list of items
user click on add new button and a bootstrap dialog popup allow user type in the name
on submit, a post request sent to the server
server create an new item and save it to db
server store the new item id to cookie and send a redirect response to browser
browser request item view page
server pick up the item id from cookie and render the page
The above logic runs good on nearly all browsers (I didn't test on IE) except chrome. I found the root cause is chrome will store previous cookie with a different item id and at step 6 chrome send duplicate item id cookies to the server.
Any idea how to resolve this issue?
Chrome[Version 32.0.1700.41 m Aura]
Opera[Version 20.0.1353.0]
Firefox[Version 29.0a1 (2013-12-10)]
Safari[Version 5.1.7 (7534.57.2)]
No screen capture. But it works
Restart Chrome!
At some point (even today this happened to me) Chrome is getting confused on what cookies a domain has in its memory vs cached on disk. This confusion leads to cookies being added but not removed from what I can tell. In my case, I'm Suspecting McAfee locking files for scanning. Restarting Chrome rebuilds the cache and then works.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17855
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=273873
I had something along this stored in my Chrome cookies :
1st cookie : (it was set to expire)
Site : dashboard.app.localhost
Value : access-token=123456; Domain=.app.localhost; Path=/; HttpOnly; SameSite=Strict
2nd cookie : (session cookie that shouldn't be there, I had to dig in the Chrome settings to find it)
Site : dashboard.app.localhost
Value : access-token=invalid; Domain=api.app.localhost; Path=/
Apparently the second cookie appeared due to an error on my side. However, Chrome sent it alongside the first one, creating this header :
Cookie: access-token=invalid; access-token=123456
The solution I found :
Manually delete the second cookie in the Chrome settings.