Duplicate auth_tkt cookie is set if domain has a dot

[nandoflorestan]

Pyramid is creating a second, undesired auth_tkt cookie, without a domain -- if the domain name contains a dot.

I am using Pyramid 1.10.4, the latest.

config.set_authentication_policy(
    AuthTktAuthenticationPolicy(
        secret,
        callback=effective_principals,
        wild_domain=False,
        parent_domain=False,
        secure=secure,
        samesite="strict",
    )
)

There is nothing in the above code that might indicate more than one domain. Therefore I expect only one auth_cookie to be created, but in fact 2 cookies are sent, one of them without a domain. This means 2 redundant cookies keep traveling up and down the wire, where only one is needed.

Debugging this issue, I found the following:

I edited /etc/hosts to add this line:

127.0.0.1       local.host

...because the issue only happens when the domain name contains a dot -- such as in production.

Testing on http://local.host:6543/ I saw the extra auth_tkt cookie appear when I logged in.

In order to debug this, it is necessary to restart waitress. I saw that the value of the variable "domains" is [None, 'local.host'], as you would expect from the code:

https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/blob/1.10.4/src/pyramid/authentication.py#L919

But at the end, when profile.get_headers(value, **kw) was called with kw == {'domains': [None, 'local.host']}, it returned this:

[('Set-Cookie', 'auth_tkt=5cd21111c756ca02499eb331385ca6730e64d9f4fd21e05b55c39235b5bcb14d9e7d6987b2e7327e3e68315bf8665bd9e11c55af7cfacc6a9f25d33838e4d2d55f48f34a1!userid_type:int; Path=/; SameSite=strict'), ('Set-Cookie', 'auth_tkt=5cd21111c756ca02499eb331385ca6730e64d9f4fd21e05b55c39235b5bcb14d9e7d6987b2e7327e3e68315bf8665bd9e11c55af7cfacc6a9f25d33838e4d2d55f48f34a1!userid_type:int; Domain=local.host; Path=/; SameSite=strict')]

The above contains 2 cookies. The one without a domain is undesired.

profile is a webob.cookies.CookieProfile object. pip says my webob is up-to-date at 1.8.6.

Maybe the solution is to reposition the line I indicated above. It should be at the end, executing only if the domains list is empty -- then you add a None, otherwise you don't.

I am sorry I discussed this in the wrong ticket at first.

[mmerickel]

I think this issue is solved by https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/3587.

[nandoflorestan]

...inasmuch as the code in that ticket does away with the domains variable, yes, I agree, it should solve this problem. But I haven't tested it.