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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Rahul Shirsat <[email protected]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: SameSite issues in Safari Browser (reference #RM5975)
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 13:27:06 +0000
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Hi

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 10:37 AM Rahul Shirsat <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> Due to SameSite security issues in Safari Browser, some of the pgadmin4
> functionality isn't working (mostly the new tab functionality).
>
> The affected Safari Browser versions (marked in red) currently tested upon
> are:
>
>    1. v11.1.2
>    2. v12.1
>    3. v12.1.1
>    4. 13.1
>    5. 14.0.1
>
> Since v12, Safari have done some security fixes, due to which this issue
> has occurred. Strangely, the issue is not reproducible on v13, but
> reproducible on its successor i.e. v14
>
> Possible solutions could be:
>
>    1. Reporting this to Safari & raising an RM for tracking purposes.
>    2. Suggesting Safari users to make below changes in config.py or
>    config_distro for the work around:
>
> *SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE = None*
>
> *SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE = True*
> (As we aren't going through any cross-site cookie transfer, this can be a
> handy option - but still risky..)
>
> I would suggest going with the 1st option or combination of both, but with
> caution.
>

Others must have come across this issue already. Is it a known bug,
documented somewhere (ideally on apple.com)?

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Dave Page
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