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HTTP Security Headers Every Website Should Have

Security headers are one of the cheapest and most effective ways to protect your website's visitors. Here's what each header does and why its absence is a risk.

EEmil Gheonea22 February 20268 min read

What Are Security Headers?

HTTP security headers are instructions sent from your web server to the browser with every response. They cost almost nothing to implement and defend against a range of common attacks including cross-site scripting, clickjacking, and man-in-the-middle attacks.


Content-Security-Policy (CSP)

CSP is the most powerful — and most complex — security header. It tells the browser which sources of scripts, styles, images, and other resources are allowed to load.

Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'nonce-abc123'; object-src 'none'

What it prevents: Cross-site scripting (XSS). If an attacker injects a