No secret option provided to Rack::Session::Cookie warning?
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I am running Rails 3.2.3, Ruby 1.9 under Fedora 17. I get this warning, when I run rails s, and how do I fix?
> SECURITY WARNING: No secret option provided to Rack::Session::Cookie. > This poses a security threat. It is strongly recommended that you > provide a secret to prevent exploits that may be possible from crafted > cookies. This will not be supported in future versions of Rack, and > future versions will even invalidate your existing user cookies.
Ruby on-Rails Solutions
Solution 1 - Ruby on-Rails
> This is a Rails bug, as the subclass is violating the superclass API contract. > > The warning can be safely ignored by Rails users.
(https://github.com/rack/rack/issues/485#issuecomment-11956708, emphasis added)
Confirmation on the rails bug discussion: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/7372#issuecomment-11981397
Solution 2 - Ruby on-Rails
Reading the discussion based on tehgeekmeisters answer, this warning is popping up as Rails is using Rack cookies in a different way than intended. It should be ok to just ignore this warning for now until there is a final agreement on how to handle this issue and a fix in place.
Solution 3 - Ruby on-Rails
This issue has been worked around in the just released Rails 3.2.11.
Log: https://github.com/rails/rails/commits/v3.2.11
Commit: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/95fe9ef945a35f56fa1c3ef356aec4a3b868937c
Solution 4 - Ruby on-Rails
rails 3.2.9 - ruby 1.9.3p125 (2012-02-16 revision 34643) [i686-linux]
Hello everyone, the following has worked for me, it may work for you.
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.9/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/session/abstract_store.rb
module Compatibility
def initialize(app, options = {})
options[:key] ||= '_session_id'
#fixed warning - SECURITY WARNING: No secret option provided to Rack::Session::Cookie.
options[:secret] ||= Rails.application.config.secret_token
super
end
end
Solution 5 - Ruby on-Rails
Downgrading to rack 1.4.1 should be sufficient to solve this for now. There's an issue open for this and I just submitted a pull request that seems to fix it for me. In any case, watch the issue, and you should be able to upgrade to rack 1.4.2 after this is fixed.
Apparently, there's ongoing discussion about how to fix this on another issue. You'll have to either downgrade to 1.4.1, ignore it, or figure out your own fix until this is dealt with (and backported, if that even happens).
Solution 6 - Ruby on-Rails
An issue has been opened in Github https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/8789. It appears that a bug involving Rails 3.2.10 with Rack 1.4.2 is causing this. IMO, it can be safely ignored till the issue is resolved.
EDIT: This issue has been resolved in Rails 3.2.11.
Solution 7 - Ruby on-Rails
rails update to 3.2.13 ,can solve this question.