mod_security http://www.modsecurity.org/ its not using mod_perl -- but there's no reason to On Apr 11, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Martijn wrote:
Hello. Like everyone who runs a web sever, I find that occasionally -and more often than I'd like- the web server get a lot of requests (thousands) within a short of period of time from the same IP address. I don't mind a sudden increase interest in the website, but this usually means someone is doing something bad. I thought mod_perl should be able to deal with such (ab)users and send them away if they know on our door too many times. So I did some research and stumbled upon a Perl module called Stonehenge::Throttle which is described here: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col17.html It sounds all nice and interesting, but the article is from 2000 and when I search for the module name, Google has hardly any other results. Which could mean that either it works so perfectly well that no one even bothered to write a documentation, or that it is outdated, replaced by something better and shouldn't be used anymore. My guess would be the latter. Which made me wonder: is there a nice way to use mod_perl to keep evil visitors away? Preferably using heuristics rather than a black list of bad IP addresses. Martijn
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