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Defect #6792

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Set cookie secure flag when accessing Redmine over HTTPS

Added by Sen Haerens about 14 years ago. Updated about 14 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
2010-11-02
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Resolution:
Invalid
Affected version:

Description

Is it possible to add this to Redmine?
I'm proxying via Nginx with header "X-Forwarded-Proto https".

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Full HTTPS for everything — Some sites support full encryption everywhere, but don’t implement it properly by failing to set the “Secure” flag on authentication cookies, negating most of the benefits and leaving users at risk. What that means is that any time you type the URL (e.g. “manage.slicehost.com”) into your web browser (without explicitly typing https:// beforehand, which people rarely do) you will inadvertently leak your cookies with that first request, prior to being redirected to the HTTPS page. Slicehost and Dropbox are good examples of this mistake.

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