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authorHasan Ramezani <hasan.r67@gmail.com>2020-08-24 14:00:11 +0200
committerMariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>2020-08-31 12:33:17 +0200
commiteda59ba2ec9cee3e11a938171fdc93ea058e9dc9 (patch)
tree52f58e597a57bf262b25a58a07fa988f604eb4da
parentc4e5384e739a1f79fe9f7d78431e3b48fcb09f48 (diff)
[3.1.x] Fixed #31934 -- Added note about the default of SameSite cookie flag in modern browsers.
Backport of 70731fc6feeb40eab535781e938b0e67ff0077ad from master
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diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
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--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -3261,6 +3261,11 @@ Possible values for the setting are:
* ``False``: disables the flag.
+.. note::
+
+ Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the ``SameSite``
+ flag and will assume ``Lax`` for cookies without an explicit value set.
+
.. versionchanged:: 3.1
Setting ``SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE = 'None'`` was allowed.