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fingerprinting
web scrappers
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Fingerprinting HTTP smuggling People involved Khalid Hakami (project lead) Ilies Benhabbour The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the foundation of the World Wide Web, and is used to load webpages and other resources using hypertext links. When clicking on a link, the user’s communicates with a backend server to ask for a webpage. The user expects to be connecting directly to the server delivering the page but, more often than not, its HTTP request is handled first by some sort of proxy machine, either for caching, load balancing or security reasons. This is an application layer proxy