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Re: Reviewing security parameters


From: Jared <jared () geek-boy com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:34:29 -0400

On Apr 16, 2004, at 3:01 PM, V. Poddubniy wrote:

Don't forget to set cookie as HttpOnly (this is useful at least for
users of IE 6 SP1). This will tell browser not to tell on-page scrips
(javascript, etc.) the cookie.

how does one do this? I was under the impression that you could set a cookie to only be sent via HTTPS/SSL, but not with any other restrictions.

Is this a feature that is unique to a particular web application environment, i.e. ASP.Net, PHP, JSP?

cheers,

- Jared


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