André Warnier wrote: > fredk2 wrote: >> Would'nt you think that a (simple) timer for the header could fend off >> some >> of the effect. Can't we assume that if it takes more than 3 second to >> enter >> the header we do not want that client (i'll have to learn to type >> faster in >> telnet :-). >> > > For the headers, I think it might help. > But I'm sure that then the attack would switch to sending the headers > fast, and then a long POST body, veeeeery slowly... > > On another track, it seems that the "Event MPM" model of Apache also is > relatively insensitive to the slowloris thing. ... except, again for POST bodies. Event MPM does not help, there. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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