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Zip bomb?

• aspenmayer 1y ago
  Doesn’t that tie up a socket on the server similarly to how a keepalive would on the bot user end?
  • recursive 1y ago
    I don't think so. The payload size of the bytes on the wire is small. This premise is all dependent on the .zip being crawled synchronously by the same thread/job making the request.
    • aspenmayer 1y ago
      What if bots catch on to zip bombs, and just download them really slowly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_p...
      • throwawayffffas 1y ago
        Their objective is not to DDOS websites, if they catch on, they will download it fast and then discard it.