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bentronic commented on HTTP GZIP Compression remote date and time leak   jcarlosnorte.com/security... · Posted by u/LukasReschke
hollander · 10 years ago
Basically it comes down to this. Many webservers use gzip to compress data. Gzip creates a header which has a date field in it. Most webservers fill this date field with zeros, about 10% use the actual date, including the timezone, which can reveal the location of the server.

Tor is not to blame here, and gzip or most webservers probably neither. It's an unforseen side effect by a combination of tools.

The article provides a script to test if a server reveals the date and timezone or not.

bentronic · 10 years ago
Those servers are out of spec, then. The RFC says it's supposed to be POSIX time, i.e., always in UTC. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952
bentronic commented on Beyond Bash: Shell scripting in a typed, OO language   docs.google.com/presentat... · Posted by u/lihaoyi
manojlds · 10 years ago
That's Powershell in the Windows world.
bentronic · 10 years ago
Powershell is exactly what bash should be (and this person wants). Their time would have better spent using and improving the pash project (open source Powershell on Mono): https://github.com/Pash-Project/Pash
bentronic commented on ThingieQuery: a SQL plugin for Excel   thingiequery.com/... · Posted by u/petepete
bentronic · 10 years ago
I think the approach of https://airtable.com/ is a better solution for these kind of problems, but not everybody is free to change tools.
bentronic commented on Why Go? Use Racket   cxwangyi.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/leanthonyrn
4ad · 10 years ago
Author thinks Go's select statement has any resemblance to with epoll and kqueue. Didn't read further.
bentronic · 10 years ago
That's too bad, because you missed the brilliant ending to the post, in which the author answers the question posed in the title:

> P.S. As noted in [link], Racket programs build and run much slower than Go programs.

u/bentronic

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