Re: [mod-security-users] Working Around Race Conditions in Persistent Storage

[Barry P. <bar...@ho...>]

> the idea protect a application from DOS attacks by some code inside the attacked application is simply a pervert one - is, was and ever will be

The idea of protecting the webserver itself from DoS attacks from within the webserver is indeed wrong.

However the idea of protecting the application (which typically has a much lower DoS threshold) using the webserver that sits in front of it is not so crazy...