SameSite cookie in Java application

I am not a JEE expert, but I think that because that cookie property is a somewhat new invention, you cannot expect it to be present in Java EE 7 interfaces or implementations. The Cookie class is missing a setter for generic properties, as it seems. But instead of adding the cookie to your HttpServletResponse via

response.addCookie(myCookie)

you can simply set the corresponding HTTP header field via

response.setHeader("Set-Cookie", "key=value; HttpOnly; SameSite=strict")

Update: Thanks to @mwyrzyk for pointing out that setHeader() overwrites all existing headers of the same name. So if you happen have other Set-Cookie headers in your response already, of course you would use addHeader() with the same parameters instead.


Update: Starting with Jakarta Servlet API, generic getAttribute() and setAttribute() methods have been added to the Cookie class.

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