Send credentials with GraphQL fetch requests

Merged Vitaly Slobodin requested to merge vs-add-credentials-option-for-apollo-link into master

What does this MR do?

fetch won’t send cookies in older browsers unless you set the credentials init option. This merge request adds this option with the value same-origin which is the default value in modern browsers.

See https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/pull/585 for more information.

Closes #36864 (closed)

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Availability and Testing

Security

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  • Label as security and @ mention @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec
  • The MR includes necessary changes to maintain consistency between UI, API, email, or other methods
  • Security reports checked/validated by a reviewer from the AppSec team
Edited by Vitaly Slobodin