getting-started/bookshelf: oauth fails with gorilla securecookie max length about golang-samples HOT 3 CLOSED

It's probably because the OAuth token is now too long and taking up too much space in the cookie.

The OAuth token should probably be moved to a different session.

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples/blob/master/getting-started/bookshelf/app/auth.go#L163-L177

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@broady Got it. I ended up storing the profile in a separate CookieStore. Measuring the cookies sizes, interestingly enough the default cookie with token became 519B and the profile cookie with the stripped plus.Person type saved became 3779B.

On a separate topic, it does feels a little strange to be storing such large cookies on the client.

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Actually after switching out plus.Person with a basic struct, the profile cookie size became 1247B. I guess plus.Person simply doesn't encode efficiently.

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