refresh session cookies

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
firebase, javascript

Research direction

Start with the linked Firebase session cookies documentation and the repository's existing server/client authentication entry points; no specific files or tests are named in the issue. Define how valid activity should extend the session, how inactivity should log the user out, and how the login redirect should be verified before considering the work complete.

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Description

I would like to set the session lifetime for the client to 6 hours. And if the user logged in and did not take any action during this time, then log out him and redirect him to the login page. But if the user has been making requests to the server with a valid token for 6 hours, I would like to update this token and start the token lifetime again.

If I follow the instructions according to the firebase session cookies documentation found here https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/admin/manage-cookies?hl=en

I can generate the session token on the server in exchange for a idToken and return the session ID to the client as a cookie. And after that we only use the session token between client and server as cookie, We can also check if the session has expired using verifySessionCookie.

but i can't figure out a way of refreshing the session cookie without telling the user to sign in again.
could you help me understand how this can be implemented?

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