Web Security·Web Security essentials

Sessions

Session cookies must be unreadable to scripts and short-lived.

Intermediate 10 min read Lesson 4 of 150 Challenge included
What you will be able to do
  • Use HttpOnly and Secure.
  • Rotate on sign-in.
  • Expire idle sessions.

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Session cookies must be unreadable to scripts and short-lived.

  • Use HttpOnly and Secure.
  • Rotate on sign-in.
  • Expire idle sessions.
session.httpHTTP
Set-Cookie: sid=abc; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Lax; Path=/
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