Add secure flag to JSESSIONID cookie in spring automatically

Question

I have a tomcat application server that is behind a nginx. SSL terminates on the nginx. The Spring web-mvc application that is deployed on the tomcat should set the secure f

Answer 1

If you are using Spring Boot, there is a simple solution for it. Just set the following property in your application.properties:

server.servlet.session.cookie.secure=true

Source: Spring docs - Appendix A. Common application properties

If you have some environment with HTTPS and some without it, you will need to set it to false in profiles without HTTPS. Otherwise the Secure cookie is ignored.