p1: additional security considerations

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 23 April 2013 06:03 UTC

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Just wondering if we need to explicitly point out the security considerations around the following:

* Message routing -- it's somewhat common AIUI for intermediaries to only route on the Host header, for performance reasons; i.e., they do not reconstruct the effective request URI (as required by p1 5.5). I know there's a theoretical risk here, but is there a real-world risk that we should point out?

* Message delimitation - the consequences for getting message delimitation wrong (whether it's regarding multiple content-length headers, processing 1xx responses correctly, etc.) are now well-understood. Should we point it out explicitly in SC?


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