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Re: Plugin 10297

Subject: Re: Plugin 10297
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:48:32 +0100
On Fri Feb 16 2007 at 16:26, George A. Theall wrote:

It probably is a browser issue -- some exploits are sensitive to the
format of the request, and browsers can encode the URLs before sending
them.

IIRC, it is not really a matter of "encoding", but rather the browser
simplifying the request by striping useles /../

To be sure, you could test by telnet'ing into the web server and
issuing the command by hand.

Telnet might fail in some cases. Netcat is better:
echo -e 'GET ..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\windows\\win.ini HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: 
IP\r\n\r\n' | nc IP 80


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