SameSite cookies - HTTP 编辑

The SameSite attribute of the Set-Cookie HTTP response header allows you to declare if your cookie should be restricted to a first-party or same-site context.

Standards related to the Cookie SameSite attribute recently changed such that:

• The cookie-sending behaviour if SameSite is not specified is SameSite=Lax. Previously the default was that cookies were sent for all requests.
• Cookies with SameSite=None must now also specify the Secure attribute (they require a secure context/HTTPS).

This article documents the new standard. See Browser Compatibility below for information about specific versions where the behaviour changed.

Values

The SameSite attribute accepts three values:

Lax

Cookies are not sent on normal cross-site subrequests (for example to load images or frames into a third party site), but are sent when a user is navigating to the origin site (i.e. when following a link).

This is the default cookie value if SameSite has not been explicitly specified in recent browser versions (see the "SameSite: Defaults to Lax" feature in the Browser Compatibility).

Lax replaced None as the default value in order to ensure that users have reasonably robust defense against some classes of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Strict

Cookies will only be sent in a first-party context and not be sent along with requests initiated by third party websites.

None

Cookies will be sent in all contexts, i.e in responses to both first-party and cross-origin requests.If SameSite=None is set, the cookie Secure attribute must also be set (or the cookie will be blocked).

Fixing common warnings

SameSite=None requires Secure

Warnings like the ones below might appear in your console:

Cookie “myCookie” rejected because it has the “SameSite=None” attribute but is missing the “secure” attribute.

This Set-Cookie was blocked because it had the "SameSite=None" attribute but did not have the "Secure" attribute, which is required in order to use "SameSite=None".

The warning appears because any cookie that requests SameSite=None but is not marked Secure will be rejected.

Set-Cookie: flavor=choco; SameSite=None

To fix this, you will have to add the Secure attribute to your SameSite=None cookies.

Set-Cookie: flavor=choco; SameSite=None; Secure

A Secure cookie is only sent to the server with an encrypted request over the HTTPS protocol. Note that insecure sites (http:) can't set cookies with the Secure directive.

On older browser versions you might get a warning that the cookie will be blocked in future. For example:

Cookie “myCookie” will be soon rejected because it has the “SameSite” attribute set to “None” or an invalid value, without the “secure” attribute. To know more about the “SameSite” attribute, read /wiki/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Set-Cookie/SameSite

Cookies without SameSite default to SameSite=Lax

Recent versions of modern browsers provide a more secure default for SameSite to your cookies and so the following message might appear in your console:

Cookie “myCookie” has “SameSite” policy set to “Lax” because it is missing a “SameSite” attribute, and “SameSite=Lax” is the default value for this attribute.

The warning appears because the SameSite policy for a cookie was not explicitly specified:

Set-Cookie: flavor=choco

You should explicitly communicate the intended SameSite policy for your cookie (rather than relying on browsers to apply SameSite=Lax automatically). This will also improve the experience across browsers as not all of them default to Lax yet.

Set-Cookie: flavor=choco; SameSite=Lax

Example:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase "/"
RewriteCond "%{HTTP_HOST}"       "^example\.org$" [NC]
RewriteRule "^(.*)"              "https://www.example.org/index.html" [R=301,L,QSA]
RewriteRule "^(.*)\.ht$"         "index.php?nav=$1 [NC,L,QSA,CO=RewriteRule;01;https://www.example.org;30/;SameSite=None;Secure]
RewriteRule "^(.*)\.htm$"        "index.php?nav=$1 [NC,L,QSA,CO=RewriteRule;02;https://www.example.org;30/;SameSite=None;Secure]
RewriteRule "^(.*)\.html$"       "index.php?nav=$1 [NC,L,QSA,CO=RewriteRule;03;https://www.example.org;30/;SameSite=None;Secure]
[...]
RewriteRule "^admin/(.*)\.html$" "admin/index.php?nav=$1 [NC,L,QSA,CO=RewriteRule;09;https://www.example.org:30/;SameSite=Strict;Secure]

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.

See also

• HTTP cookies
• Cookie
• Document.cookie
• Samesite cookies explained (web.dev blog)