Password Reset and Web-Cache Poisoning (and a Little Surprise in RFC-2616) (skeletonscribe.net)

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"How does a deployable web-application know where it is? Creating a trustworthy absolute URI is trickier than it sounds. Developers often resort to the exceedingly untrustworthy HTTP Host header (_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] in PHP)"...