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Thread: Surf Jacking

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    Default Surf Jacking

    Hi ,

    I need to mitigate surf jacking in the web application, For that recommendations is to set the cookie as secure .

    I tried below one in web.xml , but it doesn't works .

    <session-config>
    <cookie-config>
    <http-only>true</http-only>
    </cookie-config>
    </session-config>

    Could any advice how to mitigate this surf jacking

    Thanks in advance.


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    Default Re: Surf Jacking

    You can force cookies to only run through secure connections:
    Cookie.setSecure(true)

    Is this what you mean?