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Setting the HTTPOnly and Secure Flags on WebSphere Liberty Profile Server Cookies

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Summary

In many deployment environments, security protocol may dictate that the Secure and HttpOnly attributes be set on certain cookies. Liberty creates and manages three cookies by default: JSESSIONID, LtpaToken2, and WASReqUrl. This document will provide instructions on how to set the Secure and HttpOnly flags for those cookies.

Note that some features such as samlWebSso-2.0 and openIdConnectClient-1.0 include additional cookies for which the Secure and HttpOnly flags are set by default.

The values and flags of cookies set by applications running on Liberty are outside the scope of the Liberty product and should be addressed by the application which sets them.

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Modified date:
08 December 2020

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