Re: Using APR based C++ classes in Apache2 module

2013-05-02 Thread Graf László
2013-05-01 15:48 keltezéssel, Joe Lewis írta: On 05/01/2013 06:21 AM, Somostetoi Kilato wrote: Hallo, I have a small web page generator library, written in C++ and I am rewriting it to use APR. More, I would like to create an Apache2 module which will use this generator. But I have no idea

Re: Using APR based C++ classes in Apache2 module

2013-05-02 Thread Ralf Mattes
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:07:39AM +0200, Graf L?szl? wrote: Hi Joe, I appreciate your response. I did a search on the net and I found this, two parts, How-To: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/491909/Apache-2-x-Modules-In-Cplusplus-Part-1

Re: URL scanning by bots

2013-05-02 Thread André Warnier
Christian Folini wrote: André, On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 02:47:55AM +0200, André Warnier wrote: With respect, I think that you misunderstood the purpose of the proposal. It is not a protection mechanism for any server in particular. And installing the delay on one server is not going to achieve

Re: URL scanning by bots

2013-05-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.05.2013 10:22, schrieb André Warnier: These tools must be downloaded separately, installed, configured and maintained, all by someone who knows what he's doing. And this means that, in the end (and as the evidence shows), only a tiny minority of webservers on the Internet will

mod_proxy seg faulting ?

2013-05-02 Thread Thomas Eckert
Lately, I've been seeing httpd/mod_proxy seg faulting in reverse proxy setups, frequency increasing. #0 apr_palloc (pool=0x8b52518, in_size=16) at memory/unix/apr_pools.c:684 #1 0xf756fc10 in apr_pool_cleanup_register (p=0x8b52518, data=0x8b52528, plain_cleanup_fn=0xf756edb0

Re: URL scanning by bots

2013-05-02 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 14:40 +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: On 01 May 2013, at 1:51 PM, André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com wrote: But *based on the actual data and patterns which I can observe on my servers (not guesses), I think it might have an effect*. Of course it might have an effect -

Re: URL scanning by bots

2013-05-02 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 21:15 +0200, Christian Folini wrote: real-time blacklist lookup (- ModSecurity's @rbl operator). Try using that on busy servers (webhosts/ISP's)... might be fine for a SOHO, but in a larger commercial world, forget it, the impact is far far worse than the other

Re: URL scanning by bots

2013-05-02 Thread Guenter Knauf
André, On 02.05.2013 10:22, André Warnier wrote: I'd like to say that I do agree with you, in that there are already many tools to help defend one's servers against such scans, and against more targeted attacks. I have absolutely nothing /against/ these tools, and indeed installing and

Re: URL scanning by bots

2013-05-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On Fri, 03 May 2013 01:53:01 +0200 Guenter Knauf fua...@apache.org wrote: On 02.05.2013 10:22, André Warnier wrote: But I am a bit at a loss as to what to do next. I could easily enough install such a change on my own servers (they are all running mod_perl). But then, if it shows that

Re: URL scanning by bots

2013-05-02 Thread Christian Folini
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:39:44AM +1000, Noel Butler wrote: real-time blacklist lookup (- ModSecurity's @rbl operator). Try using that on busy servers (webhosts/ISP's)... might be fine for a SOHO, but in a larger commercial world, forget it, the impact is far far worse than the other

Re: URL scanning by bots

2013-05-02 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:16 AM, André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com wrote: If it tries just one URL per server, and walks off if the response takes longer than some pre-determined value, then it all depends on what this value is. If the value is very small, then it will miss a larger proportion of

Re: URL scanning by bots

2013-05-02 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:23 PM, André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com wrote: Alternatives : 1) if you were running such a site (which I would still suppose is a minority of the 600 Million websites which exist), you could easily disable the feature. 2) you could instead return a redirect response,

Re: URL scanning by bots

2013-05-02 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Guenter Knauf fua...@apache.org wrote: isnt that one of the core issues - that folks who dont know what they do run a webserver? And then, shouldnt these get punished with being hacked so that they try to learn and finally *know* what they do, and do it right