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Re:New attack plucks secrets from HTTPS-protected pages by AnIrishDuck on Thursday August 01, 2013 @01:09PM (#6141768)
This attack is on HTTP compression, which covers only the body of the request, not the headers [1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http_compression

Re:New attack plucks secrets from HTTPS-protected pages by StavrosK on Thursday August 01, 2013 @01:40PM (#6142004)
Yeah, so you'll have to be able to write to, but not read, the body of the request, observe the ciphertext on the wire and guess things in the body only. So this is only good for CSRF tokens and the like, and only if you can write to the plaintext you want to guess but not just outright read it.