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HTTP POST DoS

Researchers To Demonstrate New Attack That Exploits HTTP

Kelly Jackson Higgins · darkreading.com · 1 November 2010

Reports Wong Onn Chee and Tom Brennan’s planned OWASP demonstration of slow HTTP POST denial of service: a valid Content-Length header followed by a slowly transmitted body occupies server resources. The researchers describe affected IIS and Apache servers and a user-approved, self-signed Java applet that recruits game players into a temporary botnet.

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Researchers To Demonstrate New Attack That Exploits HTTP

Researcher

Kelly Jackson Higgins

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darkreading.com

Date

1 November 2010

Topic

HTTP

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• Ranked #7 in the 2010 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Tags

• dos
• http
• java
• case-study
• load-balancer

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