On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 9:51 PM Claude Pache <claude.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Le 13 sept. 2024 à 16:13, etkaar <etk...@akayo.eu> a écrit :
>
> Hi!
>
> I've created this issue in January 2022 but it seems it wasn't noticed yet 
> (since you probably do watch the mailing lists more than 
> GitHub):https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/7913
>
> Kind Regards,
> etkaar
>
>
> Hi,
>
> * Defaulting `session.cookie_httponly` to `true` seems very reasonable.
>
> * Beware that if you set  `session.cookie_secure` to `true`, you will
> break websites that are not served across https. Moreover, the reason of
> the breakage may not be evident.
>
> * You forgot another obvious setting: `session.cookie_samesite` must be
> "Lax" by default.
>
> * We should also consider setting `session.use_strict_mode` to `true`, in
> order to mitigate session fixation attacks.
>
> —Claude
>
>
Hi,

Maybe, `session.cookie_secure` could use an additional value like `'auto'`
which would enable it for https and disable for http. Symfony does it too
https://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/configuration/framework.html#cookie-secure


Kind regards,
Faizan

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