Re: Status of issue #30 (Implied LWS)

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On fre, 2008-11-14 at 22:27 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>   
>> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>>     
>>> On tor, 2008-11-13 at 18:06 -0800, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Yes; we looked at disallowing it, but implementations that support  
>>>> folding do already support whitespace-only lines.
>>>>         
>>> Some. Many fail, misreading it as end-of-headers...
>>>       
>> Last time I looked, I think Mozilla was in that category.
>>     
>
> Still?
>
> There was a security whitepaper on this some years ago which made a lot
> of people jump.. (or actually two with about a year inbetween, one
> looking at responses, one at requests)
>
>   

Yes, that was me ;-)

2004 - HTTP Response Splitting: 
http://packetstormsecurity.org/papers/general/whitepaper_httpresponse.pdf
2005 - HTTP Request Smuggling: 
http://www.cgisecurity.com/lib/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf

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