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Updated Setting up Authentication (markdown)

Nick Sweeting
2024-05-08 19:15:51 -07:00
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### API Session Cookie Authentication
> [!DANGER]
> [!CAUTION]
> We recommend sticking to header-based authentication and not using this method unless you fully understand the security risks.
Browsers enforce that requests made to the ArchiveBox API from *other domains* will not include any session cookies by default. This is is an important security principle that protects you from CSRF/CORS attacks originating from JS served to users on websites you don't control.
Browsers enforce that requests made to the ArchiveBox API from *other domains* will not include any session cookies by default. This is is an [important security principle](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/csrf/) that protects you from API requests being initiated from JS served to users on websites you don't control (aka CSRF/CORS attacks).
You can tell browsers to allow incoming POST requests from specific domains you trust using the [`CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS`](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/settings/#csrf-trusted-origins) option. but