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by mst 930 days ago
Mozilla are entirely clear that this was their bug.

However, GCP changing the default under their infrastructure without prior warning was still unacceptable.

Operations work should (IMO must) be conducted with the expectation that any major change like that will expose existing bugs in deployed code.

(I've done enough ops work in my life that I'd love to say 'will potentially expose' but in practice there's always -something- that breaks and if I don't find it in the first 24h after a major change I'm going to spend the next two weeks waiting for the shoe drop to happen)

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GCP does send mails when you abo‘d them. GCP is not to blame if they used auto. Heck if your loadbalancer sends you headers lowercase with a new http version it should not result in a bug. GCP‘s change was fine. Their software had a bug that would‘ve led to request smuggling.