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  1. Jira Data Center
  2. JRASERVER-8974

Restrict cookie-based login to SSL users

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      NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.

      If someone is snooping HTTP requests and gets hold of your JIRA cookie, this is just as good as a username:password combination - they can log into JIRA as you with it. So in security-conscious installations, cookies over HTTP is not a good idea.

      Cookies can have an SSL bit set, which means the browser won't send them to a website unless SSL is used. We should add an admin option to JIRA to use this bit, and only allow SSL-protected users to store a cookie logging them in.

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              7ee5c68a815f Jeff Turner
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