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Secure Cookies with Secure Flags

You can enhance the security of cookies with the secure flags. The purpose of the secure flag is to prevent cookies from being observed by unauthorized parties due to the transmission of the cookie in clear text. A secure cookie can only be transmitted over an encrypted connection (HTTPS).

To add the secure flag to the cookie, under %WEB_SERVER_HOME%\webapps\ucmdb-browser\WEB-INF, open the file web.xml, and add the following lines:

<session-config>
 <cookie-config>
  <secure>true</secure>
 </cookie-config>
</session-config>