In order to minimise the window of opportunity to steal a session,
automatically rotate it onto a new session on a frequent basis. This
makes a session cookie older than the automatic rollover time less
likely to grant access and more likely to be detected.
Should a stolen session cookie get rotated while the attacker is using
it, the user will be notificed that their session has been taken the
next time they open the app if the user re-visits the website before the
session is discarded.
I firmly believe in free software.
The application I'm making here have capabilities that I've not seen in
any system. It presents itself as an opportunity to collaborate on a
tool that serves the people rather than corporations. Whose incentives
are to help people rather, not make the most money. And whose terms
ensure that these freedoms and incentives cannot be taken back or
subverted.
I license this software under the AGPL.
Add routes and admin panel elements for creating a database backup,
restoring from a backup, deleting the existing schedule, and replacing
the database with the demo schedule. These server as crude ways to
manage the data stored in the system.
Rename the base Entity type to ApiEntity, and the base EntityToombstone
to ApiTombstone to better reflect the reality that its only used in the
API interface and that the client and server types uses its own base if
any.
Remove EntityLiving and pull EntityTombstone out of of the base entity
type so that the types based on ApiEntity are always living entities and
if it's possible for it to contain tombstone this will be explicitly
told with the type including a union with ApiTombstone.
Refactor the types of the ClientEntity and ClientMap to better reflect
the types of the entities it stores and converts to/from.
Rename accounts to users to be consistent with the new naming scheme
where account only referes to the logged in user of the session and
implement live updates of users via a user store which listens for
updates from the event stream.
Instead of constructing a new DateTime object and seeing if it
succeeded, validate the client's timezone selection using the
Info.normalizeZone utility function. This prevents throwing an
unexpected error creating the DateTime object after the change
in e100555 to throw on invalid dates.
Rename and refactor the types passed over the API to be based on an
entity that's either living or a tombstone. A living entity has a
deleted property that's either undefined or false, while a tombstone
has a deleted property set to true. All entities have a numeric id
and an updatedAt timestamp.
To sync entities, an array of replacements are passed around. Living
entities are replaced with tombstones when they're deleted. And
tombstones are replaced with living entities when restored.
Start the work of clearly distingushing client side types, server side
types and types shared over the API by renaming "AccountSession" and
"Session" names used on the server to "ServerSession".
An account refers to the user the active session is logged in as. As
such it doesn't make sense outside of the /auth API paths that deals
with the current authenticated user. Move /api/account to
/api/auth/account to reflect this.
Some functions in luxon default to the system's locale while other
functions default to "en-US". Explicitly set the locale everywhere
the luxon objects are created to avoid possible mismatches and
unexpected behaviour should the system's locale be different.
Use the useRuntimeConfig interface to read vapid details on the server
side. This is a more portale way to deal with loading data from the
environment in Nuxt.js.
Set a max age for the session cookie to prevent it from expiring when
the browser is closed. To prevent the age limit from being being
reached the session cookie is refreshed every time the session is
loaded. This should fix login being lost when the browser is stopped.
To make it possible to render the timetable in the user's local time we
need to know the timezone to render it in on the server. Otherwise
there will be hydration errors and paint flashing as the client renders
a different timezone.
Add a server global default timezone that can be overriden on a
per-account bases to prepare for timezone handling the timetable.
If a user logs out from a device the expectation should be that device
no longer having any association with the user's account. Any existing
push notifications should thefore be removed on server. For this reason
tie push notifications to a session, and remove them when the session is
deleted.
Provide a basic account system with login and server side session store
identified by a cookie. Upon successful login a signed session cookie
is set by the server with the session stored on the server identifying
which account it is logged in as. The client uses a shared useFetch on
the session endpoint to identify if it's logged in and which account it
is logged in as, and refreshes this when loggin in or out.
