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by nemothekid 3675 days ago
The blog post tackles this. As I understand it, if the attacker can run `localStorage.getItem` on your webpage, you are already screwed. They will just craft an AJAX request, which will have the `httpOnly` cookies tagged on, and send that data back to the attacker's servers.

`httpOnly` doesn't protect you from anything if you are using those same cookies in AJAX requests.