[mod-security-users] Snort vs. ModSecurity

[Florian S. <fl...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I'd like to use ModSecurity on our servers. But everybody asks me 'why
don't using Snort?'. My main argument used to be the SSL issue with
Snort. But I found out that there is a plugin for that purpose.
I actually think that the two solutions (ModSecurity and Snort) have
much in common as 'Intrusion Prevention System'. 
But what are the differences? Searching on the web only gave some hints,
but actually no 'hard facts' I could come up with.
Could anybody suggest some real disadvantages of Snort used on a reverse
proxy, that ModSecurity doesn't have?

Thank you in advance,
	Florian