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Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server.

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Michael Hrivnak wrote:
> Besides, it seems that all
> you've accomplished is verifying that the client can execute python
> code and you've made it a bit less convenient to attack.

And that only if the attacker isn't a Python programmer.
If he is, he's probably writing his attack program in
Python anyway. :-)

Although if you were devious, and you detected that such
an attack was in progress, you could lull him into a sense
of security and then send him some Python code to pwn his
machine...

-- 
Greg

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Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. "mzagursk@gmail.com" <mzagursk@gmail.com> - 2011-06-18 04:34 -0700
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Eden Kirin <eden@bicikl.> - 2011-06-18 14:32 +0200
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak@hrivnak.org> - 2011-06-18 13:05 -0400
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 03:26 +1000
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2011-06-18 12:37 -0700
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak@hrivnak.org> - 2011-06-18 16:40 -0400
    Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-06-19 12:38 +1200
      Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 10:54 +1000
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-18 14:03 -0700
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-18 17:17 -0400
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 09:12 +1000
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-19 05:47 +0100
    Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-19 12:03 +0000
      Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-19 05:18 -0700

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