Logging out ends every login session (closes #256)
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A login session was a cookie with nothing kept on the server, so
logging out removed it from one browser and a copy kept working for 30
days. The session manager now keeps a random value in the database,
made when it has none and replaced by each logout; a session carries
the value current at its login and is refused once it has changed. The
logout check compares no time, so the host's clock cannot block a
login, and losing the state directory ends every login session.
Logging out is now a POST with the CSRF token, sent by a form on the
generator page.

Model: opus-5-5
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@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ The state directory (`state_dir`, `/var/lib/pixa` in the container) holds the
database and the disk cache:
- It needs a persistent volume: without one, every restart starts with an empty
cache. In the container, the startup script gives the directory to the user
cache. Losing the directory also ends every login session (see Encrypted
URLs). In the container, the startup script gives the directory to the user
pixa runs as (uid 65532) and sets its mode to `750`; outside it, that user
must be able to write the directory.
- `cache_max_bytes` limits the source and transformed images together. The
@@ -196,7 +197,11 @@ path under `/v1/` answers 200, in maintenance mode too.
session it answers 303 to `/`. Answers: 200 with the page showing the URL; 400
with the page naming a field that is not valid; 500 when the URL cannot be
made.
- `GET /logout` — end the login session. Needs: nothing. Answers: 303 to `/`.
- `POST /logout` — log out with the generator page's Logout button: end every
login session, in every browser (see Encrypted URLs), and remove the session
cookie. Needs: a login session and the generator page's form (below); without
a login session it only removes the cookie. Answers: 303 to `/`; 500 when the
logout cannot be saved in the database.
- `GET` or `HEAD` `/v1/image/<host>/<path>/<size>.<format>`, or
`/v1/image/<host>/<path>/<size>` with no format — an image, fetched, resized
and converted (below). Needs: a signature, unless the host is allowlisted (see
@@ -244,7 +249,7 @@ the request carries the same ID as `request_id`, and so do the lines it logs
when it fetches, converts and serves an image; the fetch sends it to the
upstream host as `X-Request-ID`.
Both `POST` routes accept only a form that pixa's own page served: the page puts
The `POST` routes accept only a form that pixa's own page served: the page puts
a token in the form and sets a cookie to match, and a request without both is
refused with 403, so another site cannot submit the form from a visitor's
browser. The login and generator pages are meant to be opened over HTTPS: while
@@ -382,7 +387,15 @@ nor change what it asks for.
1. Open `/` in a browser over HTTPS (or over plain HTTP while `debug` is on, see
Routes) and log in with the signing key (`signing_key`). The login session
lasts 30 days, or until `/logout`.
lasts 30 days, or until someone logs out with the generator page's Logout
button. Every login is made with the one signing key, so logging out ends
every login session, in every browser, a copy of the session cookie included.
pixa keeps a random value in its database, which it makes when the database
has none and replaces at each logout. A login session carries the value
current at its login and is refused once the value has changed, also after a
restart (see Deployment). The check for a logout compares no time, so a login
after a logout works whatever the host's clock says; the 30 days are still
measured by the host's clock.
2. On the generator page, give the source image's URL, the width and height, the
format, quality and fit, and how long the URL lasts, then submit the form
(`POST /generate`). The format is JPEG XL unless another is chosen; a form