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HTTP POST DoS

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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Kelly Jackson Higgins
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