Apache guns down killer server bug | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
Absent forward slash leaves a gaping hole.

 

The Apache Software Foundation has squashed a reverse proxy flaw affecting its servers in which little more than a missing forward slash had exposed untold numbers of network devices and information to hackers.

 

Reverse proxies route external HTTP and HTTPS web requests to an internal web server. It is used in load balancing and to make multiple web servers at different paths appear as a single web interface.