On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]> wrote:
> HTTPbis should address this threat in the security considerations section, 
> and should strongly consider making it a MUST-level requirement for servers 
> to check that the Host header is a host they serve. If HTTP had that 
> requirement and all servers followed it, then the risk of DNS rebinding 
> attacks would be eliminated.

Servers don't always know what domains they're expected to serve -- if
I sudo apt-get install lighttpd and already have a domain name
pointing to the server, I expect that domain name to work with no
additional configuration.  And this is how all the web servers I've
used actually work.  So, I imagine this requirement is infeasible.

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