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What is a "host only" cookie?

While retrieving a form auth, the browser gets a JSESSIONID cookie shown as host only.

What is a host only cookie?

Solution

  • Host Only cookie means that the cookie should be handled by the browser to the server only to the same host/server that firstly sent it to the browser.

    You don't want to send this host only cookie for ad campaigns, as it might contain sensitive information.