Re: [Zope] Responding to hackers

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>> You might be able to slow them down. Depending what sort of control >> you have over the HTTP bits stuffed on the wire, when you encounter >> requests for such pages, you can have the thread serving the >> connection slow its responses to a crawl, issue "100 Continue" >> responses, etc.

Chris> Isn't this the same as a DOS attack on yur own server, though?

To avoid this problem you could cap the number of "sluggish" responses at some figure, after which you simply fall back to regular 404 responses.

All sounds cool, lot of work though ;-) cheers, Chris