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What else could "identical" mean?
by dchest 2y ago
What else could "identical" mean?
- londons_explore 2y agoIt could be that the TCP streams are the same, but packetiation is different. It could mean that the packets are the same, but timing is off by a few milliseconds. It could mean a single HTTP request exactly matches, but when doing two requests the real browser uses a connection pool but curl doesn't. Or uses HTTP/3's fast-open abilities, etc. etc.
- zlagen 2y agoIt replicates the browser at the HTTP/SSL level, not TCP. From what I know this is good enough to bypass cloudflare's bot detection.
- Retr0id 2y agoTwo TLS streams are never byte-identical, due to randomness inherent to the protocol. Identical here means having the same fingerprint - i.e. you could not write a function to reliably distinguish traffic from one or the other implementation (and if you can then that's a bug).