Re: Transfer-Encoding and XSS

On 9/25/2018 4:42 PM, Eric Lawrence wrote:
> Anecdotally, I’ve never seen a browser itself specify a 
> Transfer-Encoding on a **request**.

What if the request body size is unknown beforehand?

> The use of Content-Encoding: gzip on certain uploads has been proposed 
> at various points (and possible via e.g. Flash, IIRC) but it suffers 
> from the general challenge that there’s no good way to understand 
> whether the server will accept such encoding (and protect itself from 
> Zip bombs attacks, etc).

-> <https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7694.html>

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 4 October 2018 15:30:25 UTC