Re: [Sks-devel] simple DoS against SKS's HKP interface :/

[John Clizbe]

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Peter Kornherr wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to mention the sks log entry for that request:
> 
> 2012-03-20 23:19:18 Miscellaneous error: Failure("parse_post failed for lack
> of a content-length header")
> 
> Is this a client problem or a matter of my apache proxy?

I'd say client since it's a POST error.

Content-Length headers were added to SKS's results in 1.1.2. Change e6d918ac4c66
based on
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sks-devel/2010-11/msg00005.html

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