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comment by cradle
cradle  ·  3885 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A XKCD comic explaining how the Heartbleed bug works

Packets often contain payload length so the receiver knows how much to read from the network.

Relying on this data, however, is Bad News; as this bug clearly demonstrates. I've often thought a well behaved receiver should disconnect clients which misreport.