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7079 :: This brings down the forum!

• mrhdias (orginal) [2020-11-12T01:27:03+01:00] view original

  This comand brings down the forum! $ wrk --latency -t 1 -c 1024 https://forum.nim-lang.org/

  I think it is related to this error: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/7064

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• Araq (orginal) [2020-11-12T08:08:35+01:00] view original

  I appreciate the report but had to censor it -- for hopefully understandable reasons.

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• saem (orginal) [2020-11-12T10:14:12+01:00] view original

  I believe GitHub has the ability to report security issues against repos, which follow responsible disclosure. Might be a good idea to look at those for such issues.

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• mrhdias (orginal) [2020-11-12T18:08:11+01:00] view original

  Sorry, @Araq, I understand the censorship. I thought twice before posting the issue here. I know that the forum is important for the Nim community, but it does not cause any damage or prejudice, just a few seconds of inactivity and it allows people to see the impact of a issue on production sites and the importance of finding a quick solution to mitigate the problem.

  But you are right, it is wrong and I opened an issue on github.

  I love the Nim despite all the problems, but for each problem there is a solution :-)

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• dom96 (orginal) [2020-11-13T23:32:28+01:00] view original

  @mrhdias what led you to believe that you successfully brought down the forum? I checked the server and it has been running without crashes for the past 2 months. We also tested your exploit and it didn't seem to affect the forum.

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