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    <p>I'm trying to implement a "remember me" function for my login form. How do most sites do this? I'm assuming most sites dynamically change the session cookie's expires or max-age field when the checkbox is checked.</p> <p>So, how do I change how long the cookie should last dynamically depending on whether the Remember Me checkbox is selected?</p> <p>So far I have:</p> <pre><code>if (req.body.remember) { var thirtyDays = 30*24*60*60*1000; req.session.cookie.expires = new Date(Date.now() + thirtyDays); req.session.cookie.maxAge = thirtyDays; } else { req.session.cookie.expires = false; req.session.cookie.maxAge = false; } console.log(req.session.cookie.expires, req.session.cookie.maxAge) </code></pre> <p>This works. But I cannot choose <em>not</em> to remember me; for some reason the cookie last forever. Even after I delete the cookie (in chrome) and login without the remember me field checked, it still last when I close my browser's session, even though it says in the cookies panel in web inspector that it's Session and the console.log is giving me 'false, false'.</p> <p>I'm obviously doing something wrong. How do I do it right?</p> <p>Thanks in advance! :)</p> <h1>Edit</h1> <p>Looks like the above code is working, actually. The reason why it appeared as though it wasn't working was because I had the option to re-open the browser tabs when restarting Chrome. This cause Chrome to never delete browser-session cookies, and made me think that setting the cookie's expiry to false didn't make them browser-session cookies.</p>
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