HTTP request smuggling

HTTP request smuggling (HRS) is a security exploit on the HTTP protocol that takes advantage of an inconsistency between the interpretation of Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding headers between HTTP server implementations in a HTTP proxy server chain. HRS was first discovered in 2005 by Linhart et al.

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HTTP request smuggling

HTTP request smuggling (HRS) is a security exploit on the HTTP protocol that takes advantage of an inconsistency between the interpretation of Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding headers between HTTP server implementations in a HTTP proxy server chain. HRS was first discovered in 2005 by Linhart et al.

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