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Originally Published: Wednesday, 10 May 2000 Author: Alexander Reelsen
Published to: news_enhance_security/Security News Page: 1/1 - [Printable]

The trouble with redirects

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) has a redirect mechanism, which can be abused and exploited in different ways, for example you can delete an entire web site with certain conditions.



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