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Last-modified is just as vulnerable as ETag are since you can set any string as the modified date (it doesn't have to parse as a date) and the browser will repl
by nikcub 15y ago
Last-modified is just as vulnerable as ETag are since you can set any string as the modified date (it doesn't have to parse as a date) and the browser will replay it
See my comment on the previous thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825564 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825564
I am currently in the midst of writing a browser plugin to block all this bullshit:
http://github.com/nikcub/parley http://github.com/nikcub/parley
considering just doing a browser fork since the browsers are so uncooperative.