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by hn92726819 434 days ago
I'm not that familiar with nginx config. Does this protect against path traversal? Ex: host=../../../docker.sock
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nginx validates hostnames per the spec, and to your question specifically it rejects requests that would put a slash in $host: https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/b6e7eb0f5792d7a52d2675ee...