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Martin Paul Eve

Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London and Technical Lead of Knowledge Commons at MESH Research, Michigan State University

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This is a well known trick that I just wanted to share as it is so crucial in preventing effective XSS attacks in Internet Explorer (and hopefully soon FireFox).

Anyway, the method is simple, whack this under the <system.web> section of your web.config file:

<httpCookies httpOnlyCookies="true" requireSSL="false" domain="" />

Tada!