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Apache attacked by a "slow loris"

Apache attacked by a "slow loris"

Posted Jun 28, 2009 20:38 UTC (Sun) by job (guest, #670)
In reply to: Apache attacked by a "slow loris" by drag
Parent article: Apache attacked by a "slow loris"

Sort of. Not really.

Any simple select-loop (or poll)-based web server would do. But as soon as you serve dynamic content in any way, be it via PHP or any other language, the problem is back again. Most (all?) web site languages are served by worker processes, either built into the web server or stand alone pre-forked.

Disarming the attack only on static file URLs is not really a solution. The attack would probably choose apparent dynamic URLs such as .php if this was a real world attack anyway.


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