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HN comment orderI would think Transfer-Encoding would be a better choice than Content-Encoding. It's processed at a lower level of the stack and must be decoded – Content-Encoding is generally only decoded if the client is specifically interested in whatever's inside the payload. (Note that you don't have to specify the large Content-Length in this case as it is implied by the transfer coding.) Also worth trying is an XML bomb [1], though that's higher up the stack. Of course you can…
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14707674 (July 6, 2017 — 183 comments)
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 810
- Total comments
- 257
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-05 | Defending websites with gzip bombs | geek_at | 56 | 0 |
| 2017-07-06 | Defending a website with Zip bombsFirst breakout · Best thread | ridgewell | 631 | 183 |
| 2020-01-04 | Defending your website with ZIP Bombs (2017) | geek_at | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-01-10 | How to defend your website with ZIP bombs (2017)Latest 20+ point return | BonoboIO | 122 | 74 |