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X-Frame-Options

Stops other sites embedding your pages in a frame. Superseded by CSP frame-ancestors, but still worth setting for old browsers.

Recommended value

X-Frame-Options: DENY

What it does

Clickjacking works by loading your page in an invisible frame over a decoy, so the victim's clicks land on your interface while they think they are clicking something else.

Valid values are DENY and SAMEORIGIN. ALLOW-FROM was never widely implemented and is supported by no current browser — a policy relying on it is not protected at all.

CSP's frame-ancestors replaces this header and browsers that support it ignore X-Frame-Options completely. Setting both is fine and harmless; just know the CSP value is the one taking effect.

Sites sending this header

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