On 06/17/2016 03:39 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > Is there a constellation of bugs which recently conspired in such a > way that a web server might receive a flood of HTTPS requests on port > 80/TCP instead of 443/TCP? It is only a convention (common practice) that HTTPS listens on port 443. A webserver with SSL can be configured to listen on any port, such as 80. Some sites do this on purpose because 443 is blocked by some clients' outgoing firewalls. > > I've seen a report about an alleged DoS attack from originating from > exit nodes, and I'm wondering if a bug and sudden interest from Tor in > that website could explain the anomaly. Don't know anything about that.
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