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'SameSite' cookie attribute

Category
Security
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 51)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Same-site cookies (née "First-Party-Only" (née "First-Party")) allow servers to mitigate the risk of CSRF and information leakage attacks by asserting that a particular cookie should only be sent with requests initiated from the same registrable domain.

Standards & signals

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