345841 - Updating session cookie expiry to 0 does not delete cookie

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Halma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

When logging out from a JBoss served web-app, the app attempts to expire the session cookie.  This request is received by Firefox, but apparently ignored as the same cookie persists with expiry = end of session.

Here you will see the server request to set the cookie, and the next packet sent back to the server refers to the same cookie (in IE there is no packet sent back, and so it works okay):

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-Powered-By: Servlet 2.4; JBoss-4.0.2 (build: CVSTag=JBoss_4_0_2 date=200505022023)/Tomcat-5.5
Cache-control: max-age=3600
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=5DEB94DD8BC5C1BCBF04D8810D492997; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:10 GMT
Pragma: No-cache
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:52:38 GMT

GET /ilogistics/controller?E_id=E_init&E_z=k7cf_0 HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.225.111:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://192.168.225.111:8080/ilogistics/controller
Cookie: JSESSIONID=5DEB94DD8BC5C1BCBF04D8810D492997

The cookie has path="/" and Send For = "Any type of connection".

I believe that the problem is that the packet sent back to the server with the expired cookie details causes the server to resurrect the cookie and send out a new one with expiry "end of session".  So I need to know why Firefox can send back an expired cookie, or why it is not being expired correctly.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Unfortunately this app is running behind a vpn so I cannot show you how to reproduce!!  I guess I am just hoping that someone with half a clue runs into the same problem which CAN be reproduced.

Comment 1

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

WFM no problem.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!