RE: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with mod_deflate & range requests)

2011-08-24 Thread Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group
> -Original Message- > From: Eric Covener [mailto:cove...@gmail.com] > Sent: Mittwoch, 24. August 2011 14:59 > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with > mod_deflate & range requests) > > > Of course it should

Re: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with mod_deflate & range requests)

2011-08-24 Thread Eric Covener
> Of course it should have been: > > RewriteCond %{HTTP:range} !^bytes=[^,]+(,[^,]+){0,4}$ > RewriteRule .* - [F] The problem with the negation is you need an addl rule to handle an empty range header, this would forbid normal non-range requests. -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com

RE: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with mod_deflate & range requests)

2011-08-24 Thread Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group
> -Original Message- > From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik [mailto:di...@webweaving.org] > Sent: Mittwoch, 24. August 2011 14:14 > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with > mod_deflate & range requests) > > > On 24 Aug 20

RE: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with mod_deflate & range requests)

2011-08-24 Thread Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group
> -Original Message- > From: Eric Covener [mailto:cove...@gmail.com] > Sent: Mittwoch, 24. August 2011 14:05 > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with > mod_deflate & range requests) > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:57

Re: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with mod_deflate & range requests)

2011-08-24 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 24 Aug 2011, at 12:57, Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group wrote: >> -> Where possible - disable mod_deflate >> >> => we sure this covers all cases - or this is a good stopgap ? > > As said this has *nothing* to do with mod_deflate. This was IMHO just > a guess by the original author of the

Re: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with mod_deflate & range requests)

2011-08-24 Thread Eric Covener
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:57 AM, "Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group" wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik >> Sent: Mittwoch, 24. August 2011 13:33 >> To: dev@httpd.apache.org >> Subject: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with mod_deflate & >> range requests) >> >> Folks, >

RE: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with mod_deflate & range requests)

2011-08-24 Thread Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group
> -Original Message- > From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik > Sent: Mittwoch, 24. August 2011 13:33 > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Mitigation Range header (Was: DoS with mod_deflate & > range requests) > > Folks, > > This issue is now active in the wild. So some unified/simple > comms