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Looking for the plugin's configuration parameters? You can find them in the Session configuration reference doc.
The Kong Session plugin can be used to manage browser sessions for APIs proxied through the Kong Gateway. It provides configuration and management for session data storage, encryption, renewal, expiry, and sending browser cookies. It is built using lua-resty-session.
For information about configuring and using the Session plugin with the Dev Portal, see Sessions in the Dev Portal.
How it works
The Session plugin can be configured globally or with an entity (for example, a service or a route) and is always used in conjunction with another Kong authentication plugin. This plugin is intended to work similarly to the multiple authentication setup.
When the Session plugin is enabled in conjunction with an authentication plugin, it runs before credential verification. If no session is found, then the authentication plugin runs again and credentials are checked normally. If the credential verification is successful, then the Session plugin creates a new session for usage with subsequent requests.
When a new request comes in and a session is already present, then the Session
plugin attaches the ngx.ctx
variables to let the authentication
plugin know that authentication has already occurred via session validation.
As this configuration is a logical OR scenario, and it’s desired that anonymous
access be forbidden, you should configure the Request Termination plugin on an anonymous consumer.
Failure to do so allows unauthorized requests.
For more information, see multiple authentication.
Set up with a database
The following example uses the Session plugin together with the Key Auth plugin.
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Create an example service and a route:
Issue the following cURL request to create
example-service
pointing to httpbin.konghq.com, which echoes the request:curl -i -X POST \ --url http://localhost:8001/services/ \ --data 'name=example-service' \ --data 'url=https://httpbin.konghq.com/anything'
Add a route to the service:
curl -i -X POST \ --url http://localhost:8001/services/example-service/routes \ --data 'paths[]=/sessions-test'
The URL
http://localhost:8000/sessions-test
now echoes whatever is being requested. -
Configure the
key-auth
plugin for the service.Issue the following cURL request to add the
key-auth
plugin to the service:curl -i -X POST \ --url http://localhost:8001/services/example-service/plugins/ \ --data 'name=key-auth'
Be sure to note the created plugin
id
, which is needed later. -
Verify that the
key-auth
plugin is properly configured.Issue the following cURL request to verify that the
key-auth
plugin is properly configured on the service:curl -i -X GET \ --url http://localhost:8000/sessions-test
Since the required header or parameter
apikey
is not specified, and anonymous access is not yet enabled, the response should be401 Unauthorized
. -
Create a consumer and an anonymous consumer.
Every request proxied and authenticated by Kong Gateway must be associated with a consumer. You can now create a consumer named
anonymous_users
by issuing the following request:curl -i -X POST \ --url http://localhost:8001/consumers/ \ --data "username=anonymous_users"
Be sure to note the consumer
id
, which is needed later.Now create a consumer that authenticates via sessions:
curl -i -X POST \ --url http://localhost:8001/consumers/ \ --data "username=fiona"
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Provision
key-auth
credentials for your consumer:curl -i -X POST \ --url http://localhost:8001/consumers/fiona/key-auth/ \ --data 'key=open_sesame'
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Enable anonymous access.
You can now re-configure the
key-auth
plugin to permit anonymous access by issuing the following request. Replace the UUIDs in the following example with theid
value from previous steps:curl -i -X PATCH \ --url http://localhost:8001/plugins/<your-key-auth-plugin-id> \ --data "config.anonymous=<anonymous_consumer_id>"
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Add the Session plugin to the service:
curl -X POST http://localhost:8001/services/example-service/plugins \ --data "name=session" \ --data "config.storage=kong" \ --data "config.cookie_secure=false"
Note:
cookie_secure
is true by default, and should always be true, but is set to false for the sake of this demo to avoid using HTTPS. -
Add the Request Termination plugin.
To disable anonymous access to only allow users access via sessions or via authentication credentials, enable the Request Termination plugin:
curl -X POST http://localhost:8001/services/example-service/plugins \ --data "name=request-termination" \ --data "config.status_code=403" \ --data "config.message=So long and thanks for all the fish!" \ --data "consumer.id=<anonymous_consumer_id>"
Set up without a database
Add the following snippet to your declarative config file:
services:
- name: example-service
url: https://httpbin.konghq.com/anything
routes:
- service: example-service
paths: ['/sessions-test']
consumers:
- username: anonymous_users
# manually set to fixed uuid in order to use it in key-auth plugin
id: 81823632-10c0-4098-a4f7-31062520c1e6
- username: fiona
keyauth_credentials:
- consumer: fiona
key: open_sesame
plugins:
- name: key-auth
service: example-service
config:
# using the anonymous consumer fixed uuid (can't use the username)
anonymous: 81823632-10c0-4098-a4f7-31062520c1e6
# cookie_secure is true by default, and should always be true,
# but is set to false for the sake of this demo in order to avoid using HTTPS.
cookie_secure: false
- name: session
config:
storage: kong
cookie_secure: false
- name: request-termination
service: example-service
consumer: anonymous_users
config:
status_code: 403
message: 'So long and thanks for all the fish!'
Verification
-
Check that anonymous requests are disabled:
curl -i -X GET \ --url http://localhost:8000/sessions-test
Should return
403
. -
Verify that a user can authenticate via sessions:
curl -i -X GET \ --url http://localhost:8000/sessions-test?apikey=open_sesame
The response should now have the
Set-Cookie
header. Make sure that this cookie works.If cookie looks like this:
Set-Cookie: session=emjbJ3MdyDsoDUkqmemFqw..|1544654411|4QMKAE3I-jFSgmvjWApDRmZHMB8.; Path=/; SameSite=Strict; HttpOnly
Use it like this:
curl -i -X GET \ --url http://localhost:8000/sessions-test \ -H "cookie:session=emjbJ3MdyDsoDUkqmemFqw..|1544654411|4QMKAE3I-jFSgmvjWApDRmZHMB8."
This request should succeed and the
Set-Cookie
response header does not appear until the renewal period. -
Navigate to
http://localhost:8000/sessions-test
.If the cookie is attached to the browser session, it should return the code
403
and the message “So long and thanks for all the fish!”. -
Navigate to
http://localhost:8000/sessions-test?apikey=open_sesame
.It should return
200
and be authenticated via thekey-auth
key query parameter. -
Navigate to
http://localhost:8000/sessions-test
.It can now use the session cookie that is granted by the Session plugin.
Defaults
By default, the Kong Session plugin favors security using a Secure
, HTTPOnly
,
Samesite=Strict
cookie. cookie_domain
is automatically set using Nginx
variable host, but can be overridden.
Session data storage
The session data can be stored in the cookie itself (encrypted) by setting storage
to cookie
,
or inside Kong by setting storage
to kong
. The session data stores these context
variables:
ngx.ctx.authenticated_consumer.id
ngx.ctx.authenticated_credential.id
ngx.ctx.authenticated_groups
The plugin also sets a ngx.ctx.authenticated_session
for communication between
the access
and header_filter
phases in the plugin.
Groups
Authenticated groups are stored on ngx.ctx.authenticated_groups
from other
authentication plugins and the session plugin will store them in the data of
the current session. Since the session plugin runs before authentication
plugins, it also sets authenticated_groups
associated headers.
Kong storage adapter
The Session plugin extends the functionality of lua-resty-session
with its own session data storage adapter when storage=kong
. This stores encrypted
session data into the current database strategy and the cookie does not contain
any session data. Data stored in the database is encrypted and the cookie contains only
the session id, expiration time, and HMAC signature. Sessions use the built-in Kong
DAO ttl
mechanism that destroys sessions after specified rolling_timeout
unless renewal
occurs during normal browser activity. Log out the application via XHR request
(or something similar) to manually handle the redirects.
Logging out
It is typical to provide users the ability to log out (i.e., to manually destroy) their
current session. Logging out is possible with either query parameters or POST
parameters in
the request URL. The config’s logout_methods
allows the plugin to limit logging
out based on the HTTP verb. When logout_query_arg
is set, it checks the
presence of the URL query parameter specified, and likewise when logout_post_arg
is set, it checks the presence of the specified variable in the request body.
Allowed HTTP verbs are GET
, DELETE
, and POST
. When there is a session
present and the incoming request is a logout request, the Kong Session plugin
returns a 200 before continuing in the plugin run loop, and the request does not
continue to the upstream.
Known limitations
Due to limitations of OpenResty, the header_filter
phase cannot connect to the
database, which poses a problem for initial retrieval of a cookie (fresh session).
There is a small window of time where the cookie is sent to client, but the database
insert has not been committed yet because the database call is in a ngx.timer
thread.
The current workaround is to wait for some interval of time (~100-500ms) after
Set-Cookie
header is sent to the client before making subsequent requests. This is
not a problem during session renewal period as renew happens in access
phase.