Question

I have set the .ASPXAUTH cookie to be https only but I am not sure how to effectively do the same with the ASP.NET_SessionId.

The entire site uses HTTPS so there is no need for the cookie to work with both http and https.

Answer 1

Here is a code snippet taken from a blog article written by Anubhav Goyal:

// this code will mark the forms authentication cookie and the
// session cookie as Secure.
if (Response.Cookies.Count > 0)
{
    foreach (string s in Response.Cookies.AllKeys)
    {
        if (s == FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName || "asp.net_sessionid".Equals(s, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
        {
             Response.Cookies[s].Secure = true;
        }
    }
}

Adding this to the EndRequest event handler in the global.asax should make this happen for all page calls.

Note: An edit was proposed to add a break; statement inside a successful “secure” assignment. I’ve rejected this edit based on the idea that it would only allow 1 of the cookies to be forced to secure and the second would be ignored. It is not inconceivable to add a counter or some other metric to determine that both have been secured and to break at that point.