This tag is for questions about the Clear-Site-Data HTTP header.
The Clear-Site-Data HTTP header allows a website to selectively clear client-side data such as cookies and cached resources associated with that site.
See MDN and the draft spec.
Questions tagged [clear-site-data]
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What is causing Chrome to show error "The request's credentials mode prohibits modifying cookies and other local data."?
We have a react front-end that is communicating with an ASP Core API.
Sometimes we detect there is something wrong with the front-end, including service workers, local cache, and that kind of stuff, so we want to tell the client to clean it…
Ron Sijm
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Expected behavior when Clear-Site-Data header is set?
According to the docs:
Clear-Site-Data header clears browsing data (cookies, storage, cache) associated with the requesting website
Now trying it, you can see in the screenshot (Firefox v76) that in the Response section, Clear-Site-Data was set in…
IMB
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Specify Domain Level for Clear-Site-Data / Subdomains
We use the Clear-Site-Data header for cleaning cookies and other data on logout.
If this header is delivered with the response at https://example.com/clear-cookies, all cookies on the same domain https://example.com and any subdomains (like…
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Adding "cache" in Clear-Site-Data slows down page loading
I have added "Clear-Site-Data" header with the following directives: "cache", "storage". This causes the page loading time to increase significantly. After removing the "cache" directive, the loading time returns back to normal. I have read in the…
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Clear-Site-Data header on logout clears from cache only the page logged out from
In my webform application on logout I call
public void Logout()
{
FormsAuthentication.SignOut();
HttpContext.Current.Response.SetCookie(new HttpCookie("AUTH") { Expires = DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(-30) });
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Murometz80
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clearing cookies and site-data in webview for both android and ios in react-native
I want to clear off some site data which is getting stored on the webview I am using. I read about RCTNetworking, which looks likea solution for iOS. I was not able to successfully implement it. The imports were giving an issue. What could be…
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Clear-Site-Data: "cache" header is not clearing the disk cache (Tested in Chrome 114.x)
When user hits on login button the login request (ajax request to https://example.com/login) returning site following headers (Clear-Site-Data: "cache") but still getting cached response from the subsequent request.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 17 Jun…
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How to clear site data of devtool programmatically javascript/jquery
I am trying to have a jquery/javascript code to clear site data of chrome devtool. I found so many similar questions asked by other developers but didn't found any working solution so far. Here is the similar question asked, but the solution is…
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