Say that losing the state directory forgets the latest logout (part of #256)

The state directory bullet in README.md and the session package doc now
say that the time of the latest logout is kept in the database, which a
restart without a persistent volume loses.

Model: opus-5-5

README.md

@@ -71,9 +71,10 @@ 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
-  pixa runs as (uid 65532) and sets its mode to `750`; outside it, that user
-  must be able to write the directory.
+  cache and forgets the latest logout, so the login sessions that logout ended
+  work again (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
   database, the metadata files, the `.meta` file beside each transformed image
   and files still being written come on top, and eviction runs in the
@@ -184,7 +185,10 @@ 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 `/`.
+- `GET /logout` — end every login session, in every browser (see Encrypted
+  URLs), and remove the session cookie. Needs: a login session; without one 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
@@ -352,7 +356,11 @@ 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 at `/logout`. Every login is made
+   with the one signing key, so logging out ends every login session, in every
+   browser: pixa saves the time of the latest logout in its database and refuses
+   a login session made before it, a copy of the session cookie included, also
+   after a restart that keeps the state directory (see Deployment).
 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

TODO.md

@@ -30,6 +30,18 @@ P2: security: per-origin rate limiting
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-10-15 logging out ends every login session (closes #256): a login session
+  was a cookie with nothing kept on the server, so `/logout` removed it from one
+  browser and a copy of it kept working for its 30 days. Every login is made
+  with the one signing key, so `/logout` now ends them all: the session manager
+  keeps the time of the latest logout, saves it in the new `logout` table so
+  that it outlasts a restart, and refuses a session made before it. A restart
+  without a persistent volume for the state directory forgets it. A `/logout`
+  without a valid login session, such as one another site makes a browser send
+  without the `SameSite=Strict` cookie, ends none and only removes the cookie. A
+  logout that cannot be saved answers 500. `session.NewManager`, which the tests
+  use, keeps logouts in memory only; pixad uses
+  `session.NewManagerWithDatabase`.
 - 2026-10-15 the example config allowlists no host (closes #249): it allowlisted
   `github.com` and `user-images.githubusercontent.com`, where anyone can put an
   image, so a deployment set up as Getting Started says served those images to

internal/db/migrations/001_schema.sql

@@ -176,3 +176,10 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cache_stats (
     last_updated_at DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
 );
 INSERT OR IGNORE INTO cache_stats (id) VALUES (1);
+
+-- Time of the latest logout. A login session made before it is refused,
+-- so logging out ends every login session. No row: nobody has logged out.
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS logout (
+    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY CHECK (id = 1),
+    logged_out_at DATETIME NOT NULL
+);

internal/handlers/auth.go

@@ -89,10 +89,18 @@ func (s *Handlers) handleLoginPost(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	http.Redirect(w, r, "/", http.StatusSeeOther)
 }
 
-// HandleLogout clears the session and redirects to login.
+// HandleLogout logs out, which ends every login session (see
+// session.Manager.Logout), and redirects to login.
 func (s *Handlers) HandleLogout() http.HandlerFunc {
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		s.sessMgr.ClearSession(w)
+		err := s.sessMgr.Logout(w, r)
+		if err != nil {
+			s.log.Error("failed to log out", "error", err)
+			http.Error(w, "Failed to log out", http.StatusInternalServerError)
+
+			return
+		}
+
 		http.Redirect(w, r, "/", http.StatusSeeOther)
 	}
 }

internal/handlers/auth_session_internal_test.go

@@ -185,6 +185,98 @@ func TestHandleLogout_ClearsSessionCookie(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestHandleLogout_EndsCopiedSession verifies that after GET /logout a copy
+// of the session cookie taken before it shows the login page, not the
+// generator page.
+func TestHandleLogout_EndsCopiedSession(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	h, srv := newCSRFTestRouter(t)
+
+	copied := newSessionCookie(t, h)
+
+	req := httptest.NewRequestWithContext(
+		t.Context(), http.MethodGet, "/logout", nil)
+	req.AddCookie(copied)
+
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.HandleLogout().ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusSeeOther {
+		t.Fatalf("GET /logout status = %d, want %d",
+			rec.Code, http.StatusSeeOther)
+	}
+
+	req = httptest.NewRequestWithContext(t.Context(), http.MethodGet, "/", nil)
+	req.AddCookie(copied)
+
+	rec = httptest.NewRecorder()
+	srv.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+
+	body := rec.Body.String()
+	t.Logf("GET / with the copied cookie: status %d, login page %v",
+		rec.Code, strings.Contains(body, loginForm))
+
+	if !strings.Contains(body, loginForm) || strings.Contains(body, generatorForm) {
+		t.Error("a cookie copied before /logout still opens the generator page")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestHandleLogout_SaveFails_Answers500 verifies that when the logout cannot
+// be saved in the database, GET /logout answers 500, leaves the session
+// cookie in place and ends no session.
+func TestHandleLogout_SaveFails_Answers500(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	h, srv := newCSRFTestRouter(t)
+
+	db := setupTestDB(t)
+
+	sessMgr, err := session.NewManagerWithDatabase(
+		t.Context(), testSigningKey, db)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("session.NewManagerWithDatabase() error = %v", err)
+	}
+
+	h.sessMgr = sessMgr
+	cookie := newSessionCookie(t, h)
+
+	// Saving the logout fails on a closed database.
+	err = db.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("closing the database: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	req := httptest.NewRequestWithContext(
+		t.Context(), http.MethodGet, "/logout", nil)
+	req.AddCookie(cookie)
+
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.HandleLogout().ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+
+	t.Logf("GET /logout: status %d, Set-Cookie %q",
+		rec.Code, rec.Header().Get("Set-Cookie"))
+
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusInternalServerError {
+		t.Errorf("GET /logout status = %d, want %d",
+			rec.Code, http.StatusInternalServerError)
+	}
+
+	if c := findSessionCookie(rec); c != nil {
+		t.Errorf("a logout that failed set the session cookie: %s", c)
+	}
+
+	req = httptest.NewRequestWithContext(t.Context(), http.MethodGet, "/", nil)
+	req.AddCookie(cookie)
+
+	rec = httptest.NewRecorder()
+	srv.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+
+	if !strings.Contains(rec.Body.String(), generatorForm) {
+		t.Error("a logout that failed ended the session")
+	}
+}
+
 // TestGeneratePost_NoSession_RedirectsToLogin verifies that POST /generate
 // with a valid CSRF token but no login session answers 303 to / and makes no
 // URL.

internal/handlers/handlers.go

@@ -163,7 +163,9 @@ func (s *Handlers) initImageService() error {
 
 	// Initialize session manager (signing key is validated at config load
 	// time). Session cookies are always Secure/HttpOnly/SameSite=Strict.
-	sessMgr, err := session.NewManager(s.config.SigningKey)
+	// Logouts are saved in the database, so they outlast a restart.
+	sessMgr, err := session.NewManagerWithDatabase(
+		context.Background(), s.config.SigningKey, s.db.DB())
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}

internal/server/logout_internal_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+package server
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"go.uber.org/fx"
+	"go.uber.org/fx/fxtest"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/config"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/globals"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/handlers"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/healthcheck"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/logger"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/middleware"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/session"
+)
+
+// startPixa starts the components pixad's fx app builds, from cfg, and
+// returns the server with its routes, as newTestServer does.
+func startPixa(t *testing.T, cfg *config.Config) *Server {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	var (
+		h  *handlers.Handlers
+		mw *middleware.Middleware
+	)
+
+	app := fxtest.New(t,
+		fx.Supply(cfg),
+		fx.Provide(
+			globals.New,
+			logger.New,
+			database.New,
+			healthcheck.New,
+			handlers.New,
+			middleware.New,
+		),
+		fx.Populate(&h, &mw),
+	)
+	app.RequireStart()
+	t.Cleanup(app.RequireStop)
+
+	s := &Server{config: cfg, mw: mw, h: h}
+	s.SetupRoutes()
+
+	return s
+}
+
+// opensGeneratorPage reports whether GET / with cookie shows s's generator
+// page, which only a valid login session opens.
+func opensGeneratorPage(t *testing.T, s *Server, cookie *http.Cookie) bool {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	req := httptest.NewRequestWithContext(t.Context(), http.MethodGet, "/", nil)
+	req.AddCookie(cookie)
+
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	s.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+
+	return rec.Code == http.StatusOK &&
+		strings.Contains(rec.Body.String(), `action="/generate"`)
+}
+
+// TestLogoutOutlastsRestart verifies that a copy of the session cookie taken
+// before /logout is still refused by a pixa started again on the same state
+// directory, as pixad is after a restart.
+func TestLogoutOutlastsRestart(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	s := newTestServer(t)
+
+	login := postLogin(t, s, firstClient, "", testSigningKey)
+
+	var copied *http.Cookie
+
+	for _, c := range login.Result().Cookies() {
+		if c.Name == session.CookieName {
+			copied = c
+		}
+	}
+
+	if copied == nil || !opensGeneratorPage(t, s, copied) {
+		t.Fatal("logging in gave no session cookie that opens the generator page")
+	}
+
+	req := httptest.NewRequestWithContext(
+		t.Context(), http.MethodGet, "/logout", nil)
+	req.AddCookie(copied)
+
+	logout := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	s.ServeHTTP(logout, req)
+
+	if logout.Code != http.StatusSeeOther {
+		t.Fatalf("GET /logout status = %d, want %d",
+			logout.Code, http.StatusSeeOther)
+	}
+
+	restarted := startPixa(t, s.config)
+
+	opens := opensGeneratorPage(t, restarted, copied)
+	t.Logf("after the restart, the copied cookie opens the generator page: %v",
+		opens)
+
+	if opens {
+		t.Error("after a restart, a cookie copied before /logout " +
+			"still opens the generator page")
+	}
+}

internal/session/session.go

@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
-// Package session provides encrypted session cookie management.
+// Package session provides encrypted session cookie management, and keeps the
+// time of the latest logout in the database so that a logout ends every
+// session made before it.
 package session
 
 import (
+	"context"
+	"database/sql"
 	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
+	"sync"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/gorilla/securecookie"
@@ -35,11 +41,25 @@ type Data struct {
 }
 
 // Manager handles session creation and validation using encrypted cookies.
+//
+// Every login is made with the one signing key, so a logout ends every
+// session made before it, in every browser. The Manager keeps the time of
+// the latest logout in memory, so checking a session reads no database; a
+// Manager from NewManagerWithDatabase also saves it in the database, so that
+// it outlasts a restart.
 type Manager struct {
 	sc *securecookie.SecureCookie
+	db *sql.DB
+
+	// mu guards latestLogout, and is held while a logout is saved, so that
+	// the database and latestLogout agree.
+	mu           sync.Mutex
+	latestLogout time.Time
 }
 
 // NewManager creates a session manager with keys derived from the signing key.
+// It keeps logouts in memory only, so a restart forgets them;
+// NewManagerWithDatabase keeps them in the database.
 //
 // Session cookies always carry the Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite=Strict
 // attributes; this cannot be configured. Browsers treat http://localhost as a
@@ -67,6 +87,29 @@ func NewManager(signingKey string) (*Manager, error) {
 	}, nil
 }
 
+// NewManagerWithDatabase creates a session manager like NewManager that saves
+// each logout in db, which must have pixa's schema, and starts from the
+// latest logout saved there.
+func NewManagerWithDatabase(
+	ctx context.Context, signingKey string, db *sql.DB,
+) (*Manager, error) {
+	m, err := NewManager(signingKey)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	err = db.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+		"SELECT logged_out_at FROM logout WHERE id = 1",
+	).Scan(&m.latestLogout)
+	if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to read the latest logout: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	m.db = db
+
+	return m, nil
+}
+
 // CreateSession creates a new authenticated session and sets the cookie.
 func (m *Manager) CreateSession(w http.ResponseWriter) error {
 	now := time.Now()
@@ -122,9 +165,31 @@ func (m *Manager) ValidateSession(r *http.Request) (*Data, error) {
 		return nil, ErrInvalidSession
 	}
 
+	// A session made before the latest logout has ended.
+	if !data.CreatedAt.After(m.latestLogoutTime()) {
+		return nil, ErrInvalidSession
+	}
+
 	return &data, nil
 }
 
+// Logout removes the session cookie and, when r has a valid session, ends
+// every session made until now. A request without one ends no session:
+// another site can make a browser request /logout, but the browser leaves
+// the SameSite=Strict session cookie out of that request.
+func (m *Manager) Logout(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) error {
+	if m.IsAuthenticated(r) {
+		err := m.saveLogout(r.Context())
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
+	m.ClearSession(w)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
 // ClearSession removes the session cookie.
 func (m *Manager) ClearSession(w http.ResponseWriter) {
 	http.SetCookie(w, &http.Cookie{
@@ -145,3 +210,34 @@ func (m *Manager) IsAuthenticated(r *http.Request) bool {
 
 	return err == nil && data != nil && data.Authenticated
 }
+
+// saveLogout makes now the time of the latest logout, saving it in the
+// database first when the Manager has one.
+func (m *Manager) saveLogout(ctx context.Context) error {
+	m.mu.Lock()
+	defer m.mu.Unlock()
+
+	now := time.Now().UTC()
+
+	if m.db != nil {
+		_, err := m.db.ExecContext(ctx,
+			"INSERT OR REPLACE INTO logout (id, logged_out_at) VALUES (1, ?)",
+			now)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to save the logout: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	m.latestLogout = now
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// latestLogoutTime returns the time of the latest logout, or the zero time
+// when there has been none.
+func (m *Manager) latestLogoutTime() time.Time {
+	m.mu.Lock()
+	defer m.mu.Unlock()
+
+	return m.latestLogout
+}

internal/session/session_logout_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+package session_test
+
+import (
+	"database/sql"
+	"errors"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"testing"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/session"
+)
+
+const logoutTestSigningKey = "test-signing-key-12345"
+
+// newTestDatabase opens an empty in-memory database with pixa's schema. It
+// has one connection, as pixad's has: each connection to ":memory:" would
+// open a database of its own.
+func newTestDatabase(t *testing.T) *sql.DB {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	db, err := sql.Open("sqlite", ":memory:")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("sql.Open() error = %v", err)
+	}
+
+	db.SetMaxOpenConns(1)
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = db.Close() })
+
+	err = database.ApplyMigrations(t.Context(), db, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ApplyMigrations() error = %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return db
+}
+
+// createSessionCookie logs in with mgr and returns the session cookie it
+// sets.
+func createSessionCookie(t *testing.T, mgr *session.Manager) *http.Cookie {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+
+	err := mgr.CreateSession(rec)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("CreateSession() error = %v", err)
+	}
+
+	for _, c := range rec.Result().Cookies() {
+		if c.Name == session.CookieName {
+			return c
+		}
+	}
+
+	t.Fatalf("CreateSession() did not set a %q cookie", session.CookieName)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// requestWithCookie returns a GET request carrying cookie, or no cookie when
+// cookie is nil.
+func requestWithCookie(t *testing.T, cookie *http.Cookie) *http.Request {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	req := httptest.NewRequestWithContext(t.Context(), http.MethodGet, "/", nil)
+	if cookie != nil {
+		req.AddCookie(cookie)
+	}
+
+	return req
+}
+
+// TestLogout_EndsEverySessionMadeBeforeIt verifies that after a logout a
+// copy of the session cookie taken before it is refused and a login after it
+// works, and that both still hold for a new Manager on the same database, as
+// after a restart.
+func TestLogout_EndsEverySessionMadeBeforeIt(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db := newTestDatabase(t)
+
+	mgr, err := session.NewManagerWithDatabase(
+		t.Context(), logoutTestSigningKey, db)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("NewManagerWithDatabase() error = %v", err)
+	}
+
+	copied := createSessionCookie(t, mgr)
+
+	err = mgr.Logout(httptest.NewRecorder(), requestWithCookie(t, copied))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Logout() error = %v", err)
+	}
+
+	_, err = mgr.ValidateSession(requestWithCookie(t, copied))
+	t.Logf("cookie copied before the logout: ValidateSession() error = %v", err)
+
+	if !errors.Is(err, session.ErrInvalidSession) {
+		t.Errorf("cookie copied before the logout: error = %v, want %v",
+			err, session.ErrInvalidSession)
+	}
+
+	loginAfter := createSessionCookie(t, mgr)
+
+	_, err = mgr.ValidateSession(requestWithCookie(t, loginAfter))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("login after the logout: ValidateSession() error = %v", err)
+	}
+
+	restarted, err := session.NewManagerWithDatabase(
+		t.Context(), logoutTestSigningKey, db)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("NewManagerWithDatabase() after restart error = %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if restarted.IsAuthenticated(requestWithCookie(t, copied)) {
+		t.Error("after a restart, a cookie copied before the logout is accepted")
+	}
+
+	if !restarted.IsAuthenticated(requestWithCookie(t, loginAfter)) {
+		t.Error("after a restart, a login made after the logout is refused")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestLogout_WithoutSession_EndsNoSession verifies that a logout from a
+// request without a session cookie ends no session. Another site can make a
+// browser request /logout, but the browser leaves the SameSite=Strict
+// session cookie out of that request.
+func TestLogout_WithoutSession_EndsNoSession(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	mgr, err := session.NewManagerWithDatabase(
+		t.Context(), logoutTestSigningKey, newTestDatabase(t))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("NewManagerWithDatabase() error = %v", err)
+	}
+
+	cookie := createSessionCookie(t, mgr)
+
+	err = mgr.Logout(httptest.NewRecorder(), requestWithCookie(t, nil))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Logout() error = %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if !mgr.IsAuthenticated(requestWithCookie(t, cookie)) {
+		t.Error("a logout without a session cookie ended a session")
+	}
+}