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colanderman on July 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Defending a website with Zip bombs

That's true for the content stream but not gzip files themselves, which do have a minimal header.

Filligree on July 11, 2017 [–]

Which gunzip will overlook / handle correctly, so concatenating the compressed files does work.

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