On Monday 17 May 2004 10:55 am, Dennis Morgan wrote:
> Hi All...
> I am just writing to know if there is a way to BLOCK certain types of
> requests getting to to the webserver?
>
> at present i am getting alot of problems with people using SEARCH requests
>
> ie SEARCH / and a load of escape characters trying to get unauthorised
> access. I would like to know if there is a way with netfilter to drop these
> packets?
No. This is an OSI layer 7 (application) problem - you cannot solve it using
an OSI layer 3/4 (packet filter) solution.
Look into an HTTP proxy server such as Squid.
Regards,
Antony.
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