PHP setcookie “SameSite=Strict”?

2020-02-08 07:21发布

问题:

I recently read "RFC 6265" on the attribute "Same Site", I looked at some articles that talked about that in April 2016, "same-site" attribute has been implemented for Chrome 51 and Opera 39 ...

I wonder if current PHP supports creating cookies with this attribute?

Reference:

  • Feature documentation on Chrome’s chromestatus.com
  • HTTPbis draft first adopted by Chrome
  • Latest HTTPbis draft

回答1:

[Important update: As @caw pointed out below, this hack WILL BREAK in PHP 7.3. Stop using it now to save yourself from unpleasant surprises! Or at least wrap it in a PHP version check like if (PHP_VERSION_ID < 70300) { ... } else { ... }.]

It seems like you can abuse the "path" or "domain" parameter of PHP's "setcookie" function to sneak in the SameSite attribute because PHP does not escape semicolons:

setcookie('samesite-test', '1', 0, '/; samesite=strict');

Then PHP sends the following HTTP header:

Set-Cookie: samesite-test=1; path=/; samesite=strict

I've just discovered this a few minutes ago, so please do your own testing! I'm using PHP 7.1.11.



回答2:

1. For PHP >= v7.3

You will have $samesite parameter in setcookie function

bool setcookie ( 
    string $name 
    string $value = ""
    int $expire = 0,
    string $path = "",
    string $domain = "",
    bool $secure = false,
    bool $httponly = false,
    string $samesite = "" // Lax or Strict
)

See more here - PHP RFC: Same Site Cookie

2. For PHP < v7.3

You can use one of the following solutions/workarounds depending on your codebase/needs

2.1 Setting SameSite cookies using Apache configuration

You can add the following line to your Apache configuration

Header always edit Set-Cookie (.*) "$1; SameSite=Lax"

and this will update all your cookies with SameSite=Lax flag

See more here: https://blog.giantgeek.com/?p=1872

2.2 Setting SameSite cookies using Nginx configuration

location / {
    # your usual config ...
    # hack, set all cookies to secure, httponly and samesite (strict or lax)
    proxy_cookie_path / "/; secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=strict";
}

Same here, this also will update all your cookies with SameSite=Lax flag

See more here: https://serverfault.com/questions/849888/add-samesite-to-cookies-using-nginx-as-reverse-proxy

2.3 Setting SameSite cookies using header method

As we know cookies are just a header in HTTP request with the following structure

Set-Cookie: key=value; path=/; domain=example.org; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax

so we can just set the cookies with header method

header("Set-Cookie: key=value; path=/; domain=example.org; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax");

In fact, Symfony is not waiting for PHP 7.3 and already doing it under the hood, see here