From 8c18415ccb3d32db6e89ea00275425cc69793908 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Rettberg
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:21:35 +0100
Subject: [inc/Util] Add method to agressively unset a cookie

This tries to work around problems with the cookie path
and trailing slashes.
---
 inc/util.inc.php | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

(limited to 'inc/util.inc.php')

diff --git a/inc/util.inc.php b/inc/util.inc.php
index c33bbc83..9c9d4e58 100644
--- a/inc/util.inc.php
+++ b/inc/util.inc.php
@@ -534,4 +534,24 @@ SADFACE;
 		return implode(' ', $parts) . ' ' . gmdate($showSecs ? 'H:i:s' : 'H:i', $seconds);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Properly clear a cookie from the user's browser.
+	 * This recursively wipes it from the current script's path. There
+	 * was a weird problem where firefox would keep sending a cookie with
+	 * path /slx-admin/ but trying to delete it from /slx-admin, which php's
+	 * setcookie automatically sends by default, did not clear it.
+	 * @param string $name cookie name
+	 */
+	public static function clearCookie($name)
+	{
+		$parts = explode('/', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
+		$path = '';
+		foreach ($parts as $part) {
+			$path .= $part;
+			setcookie($name, '', 0, $path);
+			$path .= '/';
+			setcookie($name, '', 0, $path);
+		}
+	}
+
 }
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