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Polarizing Parsers


polarizing parsers The web as we know it will soon crash and burn in a fiery death. 12 days.

It reads a request with ReadRequest, takes a look at some headers like Host and Url to make important decisions, and then writes it to the appropriate backend with Request.Write. Portswigger also found a poorly implemented access control bypass using two Host headers, which shouldn’t be possible. Anyway, 12 days to go, spooky countdown, and then I found out if my proxy is irredeemably broken and needs to die, or if this is just Akamai screwing up again.

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