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SameSite cookie in Java application

Do you know any Java cookie implementation which allows to set a custom flag for cookie, like SameSite=strict? It seems that javax.servlet.http.Cookie has a strictly limited set of flags which can be added.

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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.

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