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Cookies

Small pieces of data a website stores in the browser and sends back on each request, commonly used to maintain sessions and remember state. Because session cookies can authenticate a user, protecting them is central to web security.

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HTTP

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CSRF

Cross-Site Request Forgery: a web attack that tricks a logged-in user's browser into sending an unwanted, authenticated request to a site, performing an action the user did not intend, like changing a setting or making a transfer.

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HTTPStart here

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Stateless Protocol

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Cross-Site Request Forgery

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CSRF Token

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HttpOnly Flag

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SameSite Attribute

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Secure Flag

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Session ID

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Sessions

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