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What is SMTP Smuggling and how can you deal with it?

There are quite a few articles on DevCentral discussing HTTP Request Smuggling (by myself and other authors) and SMTP Smuggling is very similar in concept – so if you haven’t read up on HTTP Request ...
Published Mar 07, 2024
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Mar 22, 2024

This is a hot topic... I posted (am posting?) one on this but using ASM and Protocol Compliance to find it.  Proof that with BIG-IP, the answer is always "Yes," but the real question is "Which way?"