- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:49:35 +0000
- To: RUELLAN Herve <Herve.Ruellan@crf.canon.fr>
- cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <6C71876BDCCD01488E70A2399529D5E5163F39C4@ADELE.crf.canon.fr>, RUELL AN Herve writes: >In HeaderDiff we chose to let the encoder decide how the buffer is managed >(regarding additions and removals). These decisions are encoded on the wire > and applied by the decoder on its own buffer. We think this choice has > several advantages. Has this been analysed from a denial-of-service perspective ? Anything in the protocol where the client can cause memory allocation on the server/proxy/whatever, should be scrutinized in a DoS perspective. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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