XSS and XSRF Prevention
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To protect against cross-site scripting (XSS), requires the HTTP header X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff for all responses. Also include Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 in the response header.
To protect against cross-site request forgery (XSRF), requires the HTTP header X-XSRF-Protected: 1 for all requests.
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Last updated 2024-10-09 UTC.
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