Refactor "route" related code, fix Safari cookie bug (#24330)

Fix #24176

Clean some misuses of route package, clean some legacy FIXMEs

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Co-authored-by: Giteabot <teabot@gitea.io>

modules/context/context.go

@@ -446,6 +446,17 @@ func (ctx *Context) JSON(status int, content interface{}) {
 	}
 }
 
+func removeSessionCookieHeader(w http.ResponseWriter) {
+	cookies := w.Header()["Set-Cookie"]
+	w.Header().Del("Set-Cookie")
+	for _, cookie := range cookies {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(cookie, setting.SessionConfig.CookieName+"=") {
+			continue
+		}
+		w.Header().Add("Set-Cookie", cookie)
+	}
+}
+
 // Redirect redirects the request
 func (ctx *Context) Redirect(location string, status ...int) {
 	code := http.StatusSeeOther
@@ -453,6 +464,15 @@ func (ctx *Context) Redirect(location string, status ...int) {
 		code = status[0]
 	}
 
+	if strings.Contains(location, "://") || strings.HasPrefix(location, "//") {
+		// Some browsers (Safari) have buggy behavior for Cookie + Cache + External Redirection, eg: /my-path => https://other/path
+		// 1. the first request to "/my-path" contains cookie
+		// 2. some time later, the request to "/my-path" doesn't contain cookie (caused by Prevent web tracking)
+		// 3. Gitea's Sessioner doesn't see the session cookie, so it generates a new session id, and returns it to browser
+		// 4. then the browser accepts the empty session, then the user is logged out
+		// So in this case, we should remove the session cookie from the response header
+		removeSessionCookieHeader(ctx.Resp)
+	}
 	http.Redirect(ctx.Resp, ctx.Req, location, code)
 }