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This is not what this is supposed to protect, and if you are using http.CrossOriginProtection you don't even need to add any header to the request:

> If neither the Sec-Fetch-Site nor Origin headers are present, then it assumes the request is not coming from web browser and will always allow the request to proceed.

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Wait, but if those headers are missing, then isn't there a vulnerability if someone is using an old browser and clicks on a malicious link? Do we need to also check user agent or something else?

Exactly, the post talks about this too: older browsers will be vulnerable, this probably affects only a small amount of the population and it is even lower if you limit service to accept TLSv1.3 (for this to be useful you of course need to enable HTTPS otherwise the attacker can just strip the headers from your request).

If you can't afford to do this you still need to use CSRF tokens.

I suppose that we could just reject anything that doesnt have these tokens, depending on whether you want to allow curl etc... I might just do that, in fact.

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