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Haohui Mai commented on HADOOP-10379:
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The v1 patch generates the cookie on its own. This is because servlet 2.5 does
not support the {{HttpOnly}} flag. See HADOOP-9244 for more details.
I've tested the patch on a secure cluster and it worked as expected.
> Protect authentication cookies with the HttpOnly and Secure flags
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> Key: HADOOP-10379
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10379
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Haohui Mai
> Assignee: Haohui Mai
> Attachments: HADOOP-10379.000.patch, HADOOP-10379.001.patch
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> Browser vendors have adopted proposals to enhance the security of HTTP
> cookies. For example, the server can mark a cookie as {{Secure}} so that it
> will not be transfer via plain-text HTTP protocol, and the server can mark a
> cookie as {{HttpOnly}} to prohibit the JavaScript to access that cookie.
> This jira proposes to adopt these flags in Hadoop to protect the HTTP cookie
> used for authentication purposes.
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