An attack where one HTTP request travels hidden inside another for the backend.

Request smuggling desyncs the proxy chain

An HTTP/1.1 request does not describe where it ends. Its boundary is computed — from Content-Length or the chunked coding — and every hop computes it independently. Request smuggling is what happens when two hops compute different answers from the same bytes. ...

October 19, 2027 · 5 min · XB Field Notes