Perl script " slowloris" Apache Websites paralyzes


Last week in the Internet published tools " slowloris" prepared at present many Webmastern headaches. With the program written in Perl it is possible to drive against each Apache Webserver a simple, but effective DOS attack. It sends incomplete HTTP Request headers to a Apache server, which thereupon in the standard attitude it waits five minutes that the missing part of the header is sent. So for a long time the TCP connection on the Apache server remains opened.

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