Re: [PHP] Spam Post Defense / ID spam form posts

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, August 23, 2007 2:49 pm, Instruct ICC wrote: Can server1 receive a web page form post from remoteAttacker, identify it as spam (or a DoS or DDoS attack), hand off the socket to multiple threads on multiple servers owned by server1's owner, return multiple responses to remoteAttacker

Re: [PHP] Spam Post Defense / ID spam form posts

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, August 23, 2007 4:46 pm, Stut wrote: Instruct ICC wrote: Wow, that's for that egg-sucking lesson. I would think it was clear from my answer that I know what a socket is. Sorry. You understood the concept but it wasn't clear to me that you understood about the socket. Save me a

Re: [PHP] Spam Post Defense / ID spam form posts

2007-08-24 Thread Stut
Instruct ICC wrote: Because that means messing with the recipient list - that's donkey work your client should do, hence my use of reply-to-all. Wouldn't gmail thread it but still have 2 copies? I could send email TO/CC/BCC the list to a specific folder, but I'd still get the copy to me

[PHP] Spam Post Defense / ID spam form posts

2007-08-23 Thread Instruct ICC
Can server1 receive a web page form post from remoteAttacker, identify it as spam (or a DoS or DDoS attack), hand off the socket to multiple threads on multiple servers owned by server1's owner, return multiple responses to remoteAttacker which normally would have been a single response

Re: [PHP] Spam Post Defense / ID spam form posts

2007-08-23 Thread Stut
Instruct ICC wrote: Can server1 receive a web page form post from remoteAttacker, identify it as spam (or a DoS or DDoS attack), hand off the socket to multiple threads on multiple servers owned by server1's owner, return multiple responses to remoteAttacker which normally would have been a

Re: [PHP] Spam Post Defense / ID spam form posts

2007-08-23 Thread Instruct ICC
Not sure what you mean by hand off the socket to multiple threads on multiple servers. I think you're talking about detecting that a POST is spam and passing that off to another machine to handle it. Yes, that is what I meant. A socket is a lower level object that the web server is using to

Re: [PHP] Spam Post Defense / ID spam form posts

2007-08-23 Thread Stut
Instruct ICC wrote: Not sure what you mean by hand off the socket to multiple threads on multiple servers. I think you're talking about detecting that a POST is spam and passing that off to another machine to handle it. Yes, that is what I meant. A socket is a lower level object that the web

Re: [PHP] Spam Post Defense / ID spam form posts

2007-08-23 Thread Instruct ICC
Why don't you and others just reply to the list? (I'm smiling when I say this.) Wow, that's for that egg-sucking lesson. I would think it was clear from my answer that I know what a socket is. Sorry. You understood the concept but it wasn't clear to me that you understood about the socket.

Re: [PHP] Spam Post Defense / ID spam form posts

2007-08-23 Thread Stut
Instruct ICC wrote: Why don't you and others just reply to the list? (I'm smiling when I say this.) Because that means messing with the recipient list - that's donkey work your client should do, hence my use of reply-to-all. Wow, that's for that egg-sucking lesson. I would think it was

Re: [PHP] Spam Post Defense / ID spam form posts

2007-08-23 Thread Instruct ICC
Because that means messing with the recipient list - that's donkey work your client should do, hence my use of reply-to-all. Wouldn't gmail thread it but still have 2 copies? I could send email TO/CC/BCC the list to a specific folder, but I'd still get the copy to me directly in another folder.