> I have written a perl script which prevents browsers (or evil exploits) to > send buffer owerflows to apache. Basicaly this script is supposed to listen > on port 80 for incoming connections. The input (from browsers) is read up to > 500 characters.
don't the apache directives: LimitRequestBody LimitRequestFields LimitRequestFieldsize LimitRequestLine essentially do what you are coding yourself? > Some friend of mine told me that apache perl modules should be faster so > here's my question. How do I limit the webclient's input to a number of > characters, bytes whatever... my the time mod_perl enters the request, Apache has already taken care of parsing the request, so there's not much you can do about it (in 1.3, at least). if you use Apache::Request (part of libapreq) you can limit the message body (POSTed content) via some directives and throw out an informative message. or you can use mod_perl's native read() method to read only so much data from the client. there are lots things to learn in mod_perl, and there is lots of online material and books to help. http://perl.apache.org/help/index.html is a good place to start. --Geoff
