Slowloris

[Ruben]

New hacktool for apache released. What can be done against it?

http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/

[edited by: jdMorgan at 8:00 pm (utc) on June 19, 2009]

[janharders]

government approach: ban perl.
real world: if you think it may become a problem or if it already has been: use a load balance like perlbal

[RonPK]

Looks nasty. Obviously a design error in Apache.