Hacking HTTP Status Codes(schneier.com)
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Hacking HTTP Status Codes
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/02/hacking_http_st.html
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Original lengthy discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2139107
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/02/hacking_http_st.html
The trick is to identify GET requests that will succeed only if the victim is logged into $SITE_OF_INTEREST, and bury them in an
If $SITE_OF_INTEREST doesn't have decent CSRF protection, this is an easy way for a rogue website to not only make a request, but observe the result.