A cookie with SameSite=None and no Secure attribute is rejected outright by modern browsers

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:05.134Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:05.134Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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Chrome, Firefox and Safari drop the entire Set-Cookie header rather than downgrading the attribute, so the failure looks exactly like a server that never set a cookie. There is no console error unless you go looking for it.

Some browsers make an exception for plain http on localhost, which is precisely how the bug survives local development and appears in staging. There is no way to have a cross-site cookie without https. When debugging, open the browser's cookie storage panel rather than the network panel: the Set-Cookie header is visible in the response while the cookie jar stays empty, and Chrome's issues panel names the rejection reason directly.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Set-Cookie

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