Re: [mod-security-users] Performance using ModSecurity with Apache 1.3.x

[Zach R. <ad...@li...>]

This sounds like a very good idea. Some of us that use mod_security do 
so with cPanel, Plesk, or other commercial control panels in shared 
hosting environments and cannot switch to Apache 2 since it is not 
supported.

Keep up the great work Ivan. :)

Zach

Ivan Ristic wrote:

>Some information for those of you using ModSecurity with
>Apache 1.3.x:
>
>I have just completed a round of performance tests. As some of
>you already know, the regular expression engine that comes
>with Apache 1.3.x is much slower than the one that comes with
>Apache 2.x (PCRE). When I say slower I mean *several times*
>slower for non-trivial requests.
>
>However, today I tried something else: I compiled
>ModSecurity for Apache 1.3.x against PCRE instead of the
>built-in regex library. I only had a very brief time to
>test the result but it appears that everything works
>well and the regex execution speed is equal to that of
>Apache 2.x.
>
>Chances are I will officially support compilation against
>PCRE in the forthcoming 1.9.2.
>
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