GZIP compression bombs.


How to clusterfuck almost any GZIP-enabled application
. Basically, you can craft a GZIP-encoded HTTP response that’ll deflate from a few bytes to a few hundred megabytes due to the format of the compression. Via Fun With Wordage.

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  1. Ron said,

    February 24, 2004 @ 12:35 pm

    ah, there’s a word you don’t hear nearly often enough: clusterfuck. Thank you sir for bringing that joy into my day.

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