Re: [PHP] Secure vs httpOnly cookie flag: is one better?

[Andrew Ballard]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Jen Rasmussen j...@cetaceasound.com wrote:
 Thank you in advance for your input on my question here .



 I am currently running PHP 5.1.6 and would prefer to set both the secure and
 httpOnly flags for a session cookie,

 however, httpOnly is not added until PHP 5.2. I have found an elegant way to
 set it ( courtesy of : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW0UhYfs1es ) but I am
 unable to set both the secure and the httpOnly flags. I realize the post is
 quite old, but doh!, so is my version of PHP J



 My guess is that if forced to choose, I should opt for secure but would
 prefer to do so with any opinions you may offer in mind.

I don't see the relevance of the address you cited above, but if you
are referring to the workaround that I showed you last week --

http://marc.info/?l=php-generalm=131281548332245w=2

-- you can easily extend the technique to set both flags.


header('Set-Cookie: cookie_name=value; secure; HttpOnly');


Andrew

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RE: [PHP] Secure vs httpOnly cookie flag: is one better?

[Jen Rasmussen]

Andrew,

Wow, copied and pasted in the wrong link ...no wonder it made no sense - 
WHOOPS!!
The correct link is: 
http://blog.mattmecham.com/2006/09/12/http-only-cookies-without-php-52/comment-page-1/#comment-14609

Below are the methods I WAS working with (similar to your recommendation last 
week - thank you) and expanded with the blog post above recommendations.

@setcookie( $name, $value, $expires, $path, $domain . '; HttpOnly' ); sets http 
flag but not secure (not included)
@setcookie( $name, $value, $expires, $path, $domain, TRUE ); // sets secure but 
not http (not included)
@setcookie( $name, $value, $expires, $path, $domain, TRUE . '; HttpOnly' ); // 
sets secure but not http (included)


What I've landed on in case this helps anyone else is the following:
@setcookie( $name, $value, $expires, $path, $domain . 'secure; HttpOnly' ); // 
this sets both http flag and secure

What made it work was using the word secure rather than a Boolean value and 
putting it within the quotes along with HttpOnly. 

Thanks!
Jen



-Original Message-
From: Andrew Ballard [mailto:aball...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:06 PM
To: j...@cetaceasound.com
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Secure vs httpOnly cookie flag: is one better?

I don't see the relevance of the address you cited above, but if you
are referring to the workaround that I showed you last week --

http://marc.info/?l=php-generalm=131281548332245w=2

-- you can easily extend the technique to set both flags.


header('Set-Cookie: cookie_name=value; secure; HttpOnly');


Andrew



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