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Published in WE BUILD VEND

·Jul 18, 2016

How “The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot” lead to a 15 year old security vulnerability

Discovering and Disclosing httpoxy — Over the past two weeks, I’ve been coordinating the disclosure of a pretty big and very old security vulnerability. If you’re looking for the technical details, you can head to httpoxy.org, …

Security

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Published in WE BUILD VEND

·Jul 18, 2016

What is httpoxy?

An explanation for non-technical audiences — Hi! I’ve been telling the open source community about a security vulnerability that was recently rediscovered lurking in a bunch of software. This is an attempt at a simple explanation of the problem, for people who don’t write or deploy web applications. If you’re looking for technical details, and mitigation…

Web Development

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What is httpoxy?
What is httpoxy?
Dominic Scheirlinck

Dominic Scheirlinck

Open source web developer. I work at vendhq.com, but these are my stories.

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