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fix(dashboard): make dashboard auth cookie name configurable

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The dashboard auth cookie name was hardcoded to the constant
DashboardAuthenticationDefaults.CookieName (MxGatewayDashboard). Browser
cookies are scoped by host+path but NOT by port, so two gateway instances
sharing a hostname would clobber each other's dashboard session under the
shared name.

Add DashboardOptions.CookieName (MxGateway:Dashboard:CookieName); null/blank
keeps the canonical default. Applied in the existing dashboard cookie
PostConfigure (runs after the inline AddCookie default, so it wins). Behaviour
is unchanged when unset. Adds a Tests case for the override.
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Joseph Doherty
2026-06-03 13:08:21 -04:00
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@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ the affected stream while the MXAccess session remains active.
| `MxGateway:Dashboard:Enabled` | `true` | Enables Blazor Server dashboard route mapping. The dashboard mounts at the host root (`/`); there is no separate path-base prefix. |
| `MxGateway:Dashboard:AllowAnonymousLocalhost` | `true` | Allows loopback dashboard requests to bypass the dashboard cookie requirement for local development. Remote requests still require dashboard authentication. |
| `MxGateway:Dashboard:RequireHttpsCookie` | `true` | Sets the dashboard auth cookie's secure policy. `true` keeps `CookieSecurePolicy.Always` — the cookie is only sent over HTTPS, which matches a production HTTPS deployment. Set to `false` for plain-HTTP dev deployments to use `CookieSecurePolicy.SameAsRequest`; the cookie is still flagged Secure on HTTPS requests, but it can round-trip over HTTP. Browsers drop Secure cookies set over HTTP from non-localhost hosts, so leaving this `true` while serving the dashboard over plain HTTP will break login from any remote browser. |
| `MxGateway:Dashboard:CookieName` | `MxGatewayDashboard` | Dashboard auth cookie name. Leave unset (null/blank) to use the default. Override it to give a distinct name to a gateway that shares a hostname with another gateway instance: browser cookies are scoped by host+path but **not** by port, so two instances on the same host would otherwise clobber each other's dashboard session under a shared cookie name. Changing it signs out existing dashboard sessions on next deploy. |
| `MxGateway:Dashboard:SnapshotIntervalMilliseconds` | `1000` | Dashboard snapshot refresh interval used by the snapshot SignalR hub and the pages that subscribe to it. |
| `MxGateway:Dashboard:RecentFaultLimit` | `100` | Maximum number of fault summaries projected into each dashboard snapshot. |
| `MxGateway:Dashboard:RecentSessionLimit` | `200` | Maximum number of session summaries projected into each dashboard snapshot. |