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+// Copyright 2012 The Gorilla Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+/*
+Package sessions provides cookie and filesystem sessions and
+infrastructure for custom session backends.
+
+The key features are:
+
+	* Simple API: use it as an easy way to set signed (and optionally
+	  encrypted) cookies.
+	* Built-in backends to store sessions in cookies or the filesystem.
+	* Flash messages: session values that last until read.
+	* Convenient way to switch session persistency (aka "remember me") and set
+	  other attributes.
+	* Mechanism to rotate authentication and encryption keys.
+	* Multiple sessions per request, even using different backends.
+	* Interfaces and infrastructure for custom session backends: sessions from
+	  different stores can be retrieved and batch-saved using a common API.
+
+Let's start with an example that shows the sessions API in a nutshell:
+
+	import (
+		"net/http"
+		"github.com/gorilla/sessions"
+	)
+
+	// Note: Don't store your key in your source code. Pass it via an
+	// environmental variable, or flag (or both), and don't accidentally commit it
+	// alongside your code. Ensure your key is sufficiently random - i.e. use Go's
+	// crypto/rand or securecookie.GenerateRandomKey(32) and persist the result.
+	// Ensure SESSION_KEY exists in the environment, or sessions will fail.
+	var store = sessions.NewCookieStore([]byte(os.Getenv("SESSION_KEY")))
+
+	func MyHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		// Get a session. Get() always returns a session, even if empty.
+		session, err := store.Get(r, "session-name")
+		if err != nil {
+			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
+			return
+		}
+
+		// Set some session values.
+		session.Values["foo"] = "bar"
+		session.Values[42] = 43
+		// Save it before we write to the response/return from the handler.
+		err = session.Save(r, w)
+		if err != nil {
+			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+First we initialize a session store calling NewCookieStore() and passing a
+secret key used to authenticate the session. Inside the handler, we call
+store.Get() to retrieve an existing session or a new one. Then we set some
+session values in session.Values, which is a map[interface{}]interface{}.
+And finally we call session.Save() to save the session in the response.
+
+Note that in production code, we should check for errors when calling
+session.Save(r, w), and either display an error message or otherwise handle it.
+
+Save must be called before writing to the response, otherwise the session
+cookie will not be sent to the client.
+
+That's all you need to know for the basic usage. Let's take a look at other
+options, starting with flash messages.
+
+Flash messages are session values that last until read. The term appeared with
+Ruby On Rails a few years back. When we request a flash message, it is removed
+from the session. To add a flash, call session.AddFlash(), and to get all
+flashes, call session.Flashes(). Here is an example:
+
+	func MyHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		// Get a session.
+		session, err := store.Get(r, "session-name")
+		if err != nil {
+			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
+			return
+		}
+
+		// Get the previous flashes, if any.
+		if flashes := session.Flashes(); len(flashes) > 0 {
+			// Use the flash values.
+		} else {
+			// Set a new flash.
+			session.AddFlash("Hello, flash messages world!")
+		}
+		err = session.Save(r, w)
+		if err != nil {
+			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+Flash messages are useful to set information to be read after a redirection,
+like after form submissions.
+
+There may also be cases where you want to store a complex datatype within a
+session, such as a struct. Sessions are serialised using the encoding/gob package,
+so it is easy to register new datatypes for storage in sessions:
+
+	import(
+		"encoding/gob"
+		"github.com/gorilla/sessions"
+	)
+
+	type Person struct {
+		FirstName	string
+		LastName 	string
+		Email		string
+		Age			int
+	}
+
+	type M map[string]interface{}
+
+	func init() {
+
+		gob.Register(&Person{})
+		gob.Register(&M{})
+	}
+
+As it's not possible to pass a raw type as a parameter to a function, gob.Register()
+relies on us passing it a value of the desired type. In the example above we've passed
+it a pointer to a struct and a pointer to a custom type representing a
+map[string]interface. (We could have passed non-pointer values if we wished.) This will
+then allow us to serialise/deserialise values of those types to and from our sessions.
+
+Note that because session values are stored in a map[string]interface{}, there's
+a need to type-assert data when retrieving it. We'll use the Person struct we registered above:
+
+	func MyHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		session, err := store.Get(r, "session-name")
+		if err != nil {
+			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
+			return
+		}
+
+		// Retrieve our struct and type-assert it
+		val := session.Values["person"]
+		var person = &Person{}
+		if person, ok := val.(*Person); !ok {
+			// Handle the case that it's not an expected type
+		}
+
+		// Now we can use our person object
+	}
+
+By default, session cookies last for a month. This is probably too long for
+some cases, but it is easy to change this and other attributes during
+runtime. Sessions can be configured individually or the store can be
+configured and then all sessions saved using it will use that configuration.
+We access session.Options or store.Options to set a new configuration. The
+fields are basically a subset of http.Cookie fields. Let's change the
+maximum age of a session to one week:
+
+	session.Options = &sessions.Options{
+		Path:     "/",
+		MaxAge:   86400 * 7,
+		HttpOnly: true,
+	}
+
+Sometimes we may want to change authentication and/or encryption keys without
+breaking existing sessions. The CookieStore supports key rotation, and to use
+it you just need to set multiple authentication and encryption keys, in pairs,
+to be tested in order:
+
+	var store = sessions.NewCookieStore(
+		[]byte("new-authentication-key"),
+		[]byte("new-encryption-key"),
+		[]byte("old-authentication-key"),
+		[]byte("old-encryption-key"),
+	)
+
+New sessions will be saved using the first pair. Old sessions can still be
+read because the first pair will fail, and the second will be tested. This
+makes it easy to "rotate" secret keys and still be able to validate existing
+sessions. Note: for all pairs the encryption key is optional; set it to nil
+or omit it and and encryption won't be used.
+
+Multiple sessions can be used in the same request, even with different
+session backends. When this happens, calling Save() on each session
+individually would be cumbersome, so we have a way to save all sessions
+at once: it's sessions.Save(). Here's an example:
+
+	var store = sessions.NewCookieStore([]byte("something-very-secret"))
+
+	func MyHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		// Get a session and set a value.
+		session1, _ := store.Get(r, "session-one")
+		session1.Values["foo"] = "bar"
+		// Get another session and set another value.
+		session2, _ := store.Get(r, "session-two")
+		session2.Values[42] = 43
+		// Save all sessions.
+		err = sessions.Save(r, w)
+		if err != nil {
+			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+This is possible because when we call Get() from a session store, it adds the
+session to a common registry. Save() uses it to save all registered sessions.
+*/
+package sessions