#114: First Party Cookies

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Opened Mar 30, 2016

From @mikewest : https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2016Mar/0008.html

Hello, lovely TAG enthusiasts.

The last few times I've visited with y'all, we've chatted a bit about upcoming changes to cookies. I'd like to draw your attention to one in particular, as Alex suggested that it might be relevant to some discussions you're having regarding the same-origin policy.

We're planning on shipping a SameSite attribute (née "First-Party-Only" (née "First-Party")) in Chrome ~51 that aims to address CSRF and information leakage attacks. I'm pretty excited about it, and folks at Mozilla seem equally interested:

Spec: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-west-first-party-cookies

Intent to Ship: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/csCtW3M3-wg

Feedback from y'all on this feature or others that you might be interested in seeing would be totally welcome.

Thanks!

Discussions

Comment by @mikewest Mar 31, 2016 (See Github)

s/First Party Cookies/The 'SameSite' cookie attribute/ probably makes things clearer. :)

Comment by @mnot May 31, 2016 (See Github)

Adopted by HTTP WG.