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Incrementally Better Cookies
draft-west-cookie-incrementalism-01

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (candidate for httpbis WG)
Expired & archived
Author Mike West
Last updated 2020-11-12 (Latest revision 2020-03-15)
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Intended RFC status (None)
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Additional resources Mailing list discussion
Stream WG state Call For Adoption By WG Issued
Document shepherd (None)
IESG IESG state Expired
Consensus boilerplate Unknown
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Abstract

This document proposes a few changes to cookies inspired by the properties of the HTTP State Tokens mechanism proposed in [I-D.west-http-state-tokens]. First, cookies should be treated as "SameSite=Lax" by default. Second, cookies that explicitly assert "SameSite=None" in order to enable cross-site delivery should also be marked as "Secure". Third, same-site should take the scheme of the sites into account. Fourth, cookies should respect schemes. Fifth, cookies associated with non-secure schemes should be removed at the end of a user's session. Sixth, the definition of a session should be tightened.

Authors

Mike West

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