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Haohui Mai commented on HADOOP-10379:
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Comment 1: Please see
http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/SessionCookieConfig.html#setSecure(boolean)
Comment 2: The configuration is unnecessary. There is no backward compatibility
issue since (1) only the browser will respect the flag, and (2) any violations
of the flags are security vulnerabilities.
> Protect authentication cookies with the HttpOnly and Secure flags
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> Key: HADOOP-10379
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10379
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Haohui Mai
> Assignee: Haohui Mai
> Attachments: HADOOP-10379.000.patch
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> Browser vendors have adopted proposals to enhance the security of HTTP
> cookies. For example, the server can mark a cookie as {{Secure}} so that it
> will not be transfer via plain-text HTTP protocol, and the server can mark a
> cookie as {{HttpOnly}} to prohibit the JavaScript to access that cookie.
> This jira proposes to adopt these flags in Hadoop to protect the HTTP cookie
> used for authentication purposes.
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