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HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame

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HTTP/1.1 desync attacks can mass-compromise credentials via flaws in Akamai, Cloudflare and Netlify. A parser-discrepancy toolkit earned $200,000 in two weeks — Kettle argues HTTP/1.1 must die.
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