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Doesn't look like this has anything to do with an exploit. It is because some older web servers who don't support TLS also don't support compression. See:http
by tonyb 14y ago
Doesn't look like this has anything to do with an exploit. It is because some older web servers who don't support TLS also don't support compression.
See:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31628 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31628
- EwanToo 14y agoThat's always possible, but why would the bug report linked from the code change be private then? http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=139744 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=139744
- abadidea 14y agoNo, I doubt that something closed in early 2010 has much to do with a new patch that has a rationale disabled from public viewing which implies it's a security emergency.
- tonyb 14y agoYou are correct, I misread the code commit. The link to the 2010 bug was removed from the code, not added to it.
- tptacek 14y agoI think 'jgrahamc is right.