On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:46 AM, gollomm<goll...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> For the last couple of days I was trying to get my
> Apache/mod_proxy/mongrel setup to limit the size of the request body.
> The setup is as follows:
>
> 1.) Apache acts as a reverse proxy by facilitating mod_rewrite and mod_proxy
> 2.) Requests for non-static files are passed on to a mongrel_cluster
> 3.) We use mongrel for our Ruby on Rails application

ModSecurity?

Stephan

> Note that due to some restrictions we are unable to use
> Apache/Passenger for our production deployment.
>
> Is there a way to tell mongrel to skip requests which exceed a certain
> limit (say 20MB) and return a 400 (Bad Request) response or the like?
> I have tried to use the LimitRequestBody directive of Apache httpd,
> but this obviously does not work, since Apache httpd passes most of
> it's requests directly on to mongrel. Thanks for your help!
>
> Regards,
> Severin
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