missing session cookie - from lua resty openidc

Context: I am trying to use Kong + OpenIDC (Custom plugin), based on nokia/kong-oidc The setup is using docker desktop.

I run luarocks install lua-resty-openidc while building the custom kong image.

Following the code-snippet from my handler.lua:

local res, err = require("resty.openidc").authenticate(oidcConfig)
    if err then
        if oidcConfig.recovery_page_path then
            ngx.log(ngx.NOTICE, "Entering recovery page: " .. oidcConfig.recovery_page_path)
            ngx.redirect(oidcConfig.recovery_page_path)
        end
        utils.exit(500, err, ngx.HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)
    end

I get the following error: attempt to call method 'start' (a nil value), client: 172.18.0.1, server: kong, request: "GET /mock HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost:8000", request_id: "7df8870a8d3fa916cf1c5a540f2b9f3f"

I figured that it was from session:start() present in openidc. It seemed that session was not getting initialized, so I tried similar in my local handler.lua. Following is the code from my local handler.lua (inspired from openidc)

    local session, err, ret = require("resty.session").open(nil)
    if (session ~= nil) then
        ngx.log(ngx.NOTICE,"session is not nil")
        ngx.log(ngx.DEBUG,
            "session.present=", session.present,
            ", session.data.id_token=", session.data.id_token ~= nil,
            ", session.data.authenticated=", session.data.authenticated,
            ", err=", err,
            ", ret=",ret
        )
        session:start()
    else
        ngx.log(ngx.NOTICE, "Session is nil")
    end

I observe that session is not null and err is printed is as "missing session cookie". Here is the snippet of the logs

2024-10-07 11:16:12 2024/10/07 05:46:12 [notice] 2413#0: *20313 [lua] handler.lua:73: make_oidc(): OidcHandler calling authenticate, requested path: /mock, client: 172.18.0.1, server: kong, request: "GET /mock HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost:8000", request_id: "7df8870a8d3fa916cf1c5a540f2b9f3f"
2024-10-07 11:16:12 2024/10/07 05:46:12 [notice] 2413#0: *20313 [lua] handler.lua:76: make_oidc(): session is not nil, client: 172.18.0.1, server: kong, request: "GET /mock HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost:8000", request_id: "7df8870a8d3fa916cf1c5a540f2b9f3f"
2024-10-07 11:16:12 2024/10/07 05:46:12 [debug] 2413#0: *20313 [lua] handler.lua:77: make_oidc(): session.present=nil, session.data.id_token=false, session.data.authenticated=nil, err=missing session cookie, ret=false
2024-10-07 11:16:12 2024/10/07 05:46:12 [error] 2413#0: *20313 [kong] init.lua:426 [fountane-oidc] ...cal/share/lua/5.1/kong/plugins/fountane-oidc/handler.lua:84: attempt to call method 'start' (a nil value), client: 172.18.0.1, server: kong, request: "GET /mock HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost:8000", request_id: "7df8870a8d3fa916cf1c5a540f2b9f3f"

Not sure what am I missing here. Any pointers are appreciated.

bungle / lua-resty-session

missing session cookie - from lua resty openidc #184