Re^2: Perl and advanced networking question...

A firewall will only protect against attacks aimed towards the web server it self, and not the actual web application on it. Some firewalls have basic protection agains the most common attacks towards applications like SQL injection and XSS ... but if you want protection for attacks like the once im referring to, you need a full Web Application Firewall, .. and normal one just wount cut it....

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Re^3: Perl and advanced networking question... by salva (Canon) on Jan 29, 2009 at 14:28 UTC
Make your sniffer push rules on the firewall as needed... or use a firewall like Netfilter that can be controlled from user space using some library (libnetfilter_conntrack) or tool (conntrack-tools). In any case, using a reverse proxy in front of your web server would be far easier.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl and advanced networking question... by Anonymous Monk on Jan 29, 2009 at 14:15 UTC
Great, you already know what to get :)	[reply]