Timeline for Why would an attacker include a request body with an HTTP GET request?
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/
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| Sep 27, 2016 at 6:56 | vote | accept | RedBaron | ||
| Sep 2, 2016 at 20:41 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/771810322638397440 | ||
| Sep 2, 2016 at 17:22 | history | edited | 700 Software | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
add context to the title - an attacker is doing this
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| Sep 2, 2016 at 17:10 | answer | added | Jonah Benton | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 2, 2016 at 15:31 | comment | added | Sam Williams | Looks like a bug to me, possibly caused by poor memory management. I can think of no benefit to this. | |
| Sep 2, 2016 at 8:18 | comment | added | Yorick de Wid | If you were to run WordPress, it would have been more difficult to notice this request as a bot, because it mocks Safari quite good. It still doesn't explain why the HTML is send (especially in a GET request). Best guess, some random HTML content is used for fuzz testing. | |
| Sep 2, 2016 at 6:22 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 2, 2016 at 6:20 | history | asked | RedBaron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |