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authorDaniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>2018-12-13 09:57:58 +0100
committerDaniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>2018-12-13 09:57:58 +0100
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cookies: leave secure cookies alone
Only allow secure origins to be able to write cookies with the 'secure' flag set. This reduces the risk of non-secure origins to influence the state of secure origins. This implements IETF Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-cookie-alone-01 which updates RFC6265. Closes #2956 Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
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diff --git a/docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md b/docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md
index a1b283454..66e39d232 100644
--- a/docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md
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@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
original [Netscape spec from 1994](https://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html).
In 2011, [RFC6265](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6265.txt) was finally
- published and details how cookies work within HTTP.
+ published and details how cookies work within HTTP. In 2017, an update was
+ [drafted](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-cookie-alone-01)
+ to deprecate modification of 'secure' cookies from non-secure origins.
## Cookies saved to disk
diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO
index f7fd722a8..e0d8ed68f 100644
--- a/docs/TODO
+++ b/docs/TODO
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@
5.5 auth= in URLs
5.6 Refuse "downgrade" redirects
5.7 QUIC
- 5.8 Leave secure cookies alone
6. TELNET
6.1 ditch stdin
@@ -605,13 +604,6 @@
implemented. This, to allow other projects to benefit from the work and to
thus broaden the interest and chance of others to participate.
-5.8 Leave secure cookies alone
-
- Non-secure origins (HTTP sites) should not be allowed to set or modify
- cookies with the 'secure' property:
-
- https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-cookie-alone-01
-
6. TELNET