HTTP request smuggling
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HTTP request smuggling is a security exploit on the HTTP protocol that uses inconsistency between the interpretation of Content-length
and/or Transfer-encoding
headers between HTTP server implementations in an HTTP proxy server chain.[1][2]
References
- ^ "CWE - CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling') (4.0)". cwe.mitre.org. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ^ "What is HTTP request smuggling? Tutorial & Examples | Web Security Academy". portswigger.net. Retrieved 2020-03-13.