Discover how persistent connections and weak Host validation open the doors to internal systems.
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In this specific scenario, the front-end server uses connection-based assumptions to validate the Host header. It analyzes only the first HTTP request in a persistent connection (usually with Connection: keep-alive) to determine if the Host header is valid.