On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:59:20 -0700 Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Patrick Thomas wrote: > > Is it possible to patch/recompile FreeBSD 4.5 in such a way that your > > system is no longer vulnerable to the "chunking" attack, even if you are > > still running a vulnerable apache ? Why not upgrade Apache...?? Both the 1 and 2 series have been updated I think. (I'm a newbie at server stuff, so bear with me if I made a faux pas.) > The way you would deal with this would be to tell Apache that it > was an HTTP 1.0 server, since chunking is an HTTP 1.1 feature. > > The only place this is an issue is if you need to reuse an HTTP > connection, and that only occurs in HTTP 1.1 when you are doing > pipelining. Everywhere else, you can indicate an end of data Mozilla has an option to enable http pipelining as a performance option. I regularly used this, maybe I shouldn't? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
