SameSite default limits cross‑site POSTs in Chrome 80+
SameSite default limits cross‑site POSTs in Chrome 80+ Chrome 80 and newer treat cookies without an explicit SameSite attribute as Lax . This default prevents the cookie from being sent on cross‑site POST requests, a behavior that often succeeds locally on localhost but fails on production HTTPS domains. The policy is documented in Chrome’s SameSite cookie s