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HTTP Response Splitting: A Common, But Frequently Unknown, Security Issue

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Re: HTTP Response Splitting: A Common, But Frequently Unknown, Security Issue

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Can anyone think of a common case where a request variable is included directly in a header? I can see why it would happen (in terms of the programmer misusing his easily available tools) but I can't think of a likely case for it in practice, other than perhaps including raw request data in a cookie header.