README.md

cfn-cognito-logout-listener

Introduction

So, you implemented Cognito on your AWS Elastic Load Balancer and now your application doesn't want to log out?

Issue

This is caused by the AWSELBAuthSessionCookie remaining active. The only way to end your session is to invalidate this cookie server-side.

Solution

When you are running a 3rd party application, logically you cannot integrate this into the application easily. To solve this, I have written a small Lamba which listens under the same load balancer by means of a listener rule and thus can expire the cookie.

Code snippet

import os
import urllib

location = "https://{}.auth.{}.amazoncognito.com/logout?client_id={}&redirect_uri={}&response_type=code&state=STATE&scope=openid".format(
    os.environ.get("USER_POOL_DOMAIN"),
    os.environ.get("REGION"),
    os.environ.get("USER_POOL_CLIENT"),
    urllib.parse.quote(os.environ.get("REDIRECT_URI"))
)

def send_response(event):
    return({
        "isBase64Encoded": False,
        "statusCode": 302,
        "statusDescription": "Found",
        "headers": {
            "content-type": "content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8",
            "set-cookie": "AWSELBAuthSessionCookie-0=empty;max_age=-3600",
            "location": location
        }
    })

def handler(event, context):
    return(send_response(event))

Example

Please view the cloudformation.yaml for a full implementation.