From: Stephen Gregoratto <dev@sgregoratto.me>
To: discuss@mandoc.bsd.lv
Subject: man.cgi and gzip manuals: bug or feature
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:59:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200216115947.7gsgn5hgkinplzo5@BlackBox> (raw)
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man.cgi doesn't handle serving gzipped manuals, with it dumping the raw
bytes onto the user's screen. You can view a simple test I made to
illustrate[1]. Not sure if this is a bug or some way of reducing attack
service ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
[1] https://man.sgregoratto.me/gzip-test/man1/sh.1
https://man.sgregoratto.me/gzip-test/man1/sh-plain.1
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2020-02-16 11:59 Stephen Gregoratto [this message]
2020-02-16 12:43 ` Jan Stary
2020-02-16 12:55 ` Stephen Gregoratto
2020-02-16 15:30 ` Ingo Schwarze
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