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Re:HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit by Selfcommit on Friday December 07, 2012 @10:14AM (#4887210)
I don't get it - What am I missing?
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Re:HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit by citricsquid on Friday December 07, 2012 @10:29AM (#4887282) 

    Server: '; DROP TABLE servertypes; --
It's a mysql injection. If someone was scraping headers and logging them and wasn't validating the input -- and their database was named "servertypes" -- it would delete the database.
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