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It's botariffic!

2025-08-08 20:39:22.292285+02 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Put a .gz bomb in common .php locations, took a bunch of Perl warnings out of the website code. If anyone notices misbehaviors, please say something.

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#Comment Re: It's botariffic! made: 2025-08-08 21:27:27.268615+02 by: John Anderson

did you use the HTML .gz bomb that made the rounds this week, or something else? Am planning on sprinkling a few of those around in various places myself…

#Comment Re: It's botariffic! made: 2025-08-08 21:27:27.268615+02 by: Dan Lyke

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=10240 | gzip > 10G.gzip, which gave me a 10M file (which is still larger than I really want to be serving, but hopefully this stuff will cook off after not too long.)

#Comment Re: It's botariffic! made: 2025-08-12 00:05:27.991217+02 by: John Anderson

https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb if you haven't seen; having it be a valid HTML file seems to be fairly useful to me...

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