Re: [users@httpd] mod_xsendfile and security issues

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On Thursday 24 August 2006 12:12, Jose Adriano Baltieri wrote:

> However, Apache DOES NOT remove or "swallows" the x-sendfile header. It
> will go along to client side, revealing to client side my internal file
> system paths.

Does Header Unset x-sendfile have any effect?

> I think this is a severe security vulnerability.

Well, it may be unwanted, but to be a secure security
vulnerability seems to imply that security depends on
obscurity.

> Can you notice the same problem ?

I don't expect many people here use that module.
Have you asked its developer?

-- 
Nick Kew

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