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Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Tue Jun 29 13:43:25 BST 2021
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Anna “CyberTailor” writes:
The specification leaves error messages in response field "meta" to
servers' developers. So in response to malfored request servers may
send "59 invalid request", "59 Error parsing URL!", "59 Invalid URL"
or something else.
Is it a security issue or just "creepy"?
That's a good question. I know it's considered good practice not to leakany information you don't need to. But as you also suggest, I'm not sureif fingerprinting server implementations is really that sensitiveinformation.
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