syncthing / syncthing/syncthing
Fix cookie SameSite and Secure policy
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Description
Syncthing currently triggers a warning in the Firefox console because SameSite=None also requires the Secure flag: https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Set-Cookie/SameSite#samesitenone_requires_secure
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating where Syncthing sets the affected cookie and compare its attributes with the linked MDN guidance for SameSite=None and Secure. Done means the Firefox console warning no longer appears and the cookie policy is valid.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100