Owin Framework

This middleware provides session for your website or webservice using the ICache interface implementation registered with IoC.

Session is a dictionary of name/value pairs that is unique to each visitor to the website. The user is identified by storing a cookie on thier browser.

You typically want to provide an ICache implementation that provides a consistent view across servers so that you do not need sticky sessions, but you can also use an in-memory cache and sticky sessions if you want.

Adding this middleware to the Owin pipeline

 builder.Register(ninject.Get<OwinFramework.Session.CacheSessionMiddleware>())
    .As("Session")
    .ConfigureWith(config, "/owinFramework/middleware/session");    

Default Configuration

The configuration below is the configuration you will get by default if you do not provide a configuration for this middleware.

{
   "owinFramework": {
      "middleware": {
         "session": {
            "cacheCategory": "session",
            "sessionDuration": "00:20:00",
            "cookieName": "owin-framework-sid",
            "cookieDomainName": ""
         }
      }
   }
}

Configuration notes

• The cache category is passed to the ICache interface so that it can implement business logic that is specific to session storage.
• You should set the cookie domain name to your root domain if you want to share session across multiple services that are in sub-domains. For example if you have services at https://service1.mycompany.com/ and https://service2.mycompany.com/ then you should set the cookieDomainName to mycompany.com