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Re:Defending a website with Zip bombs by colanderman on Thursday July 06, 2017 @09:47AM (#14710345)
That's true for the content stream but not gzip files themselves, which do have a minimal header.
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Re:Defending a website with Zip bombs by Filligree on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:54PM (#14747967)
Which gunzip will overlook / handle correctly, so concatenating the compressed files does work.
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