ModSecurity v2 Apache rules for directory servers

[Peter Palfrader]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Kyle Williams wrote:

>>   SecRule REQUEST_URI "!^/tor/server/authority$"                                       "chain,msg:'Badly formed uri'"
>>   SecRule REQUEST_URI "!^/tor/status/all$"                                             "chain"
>>   SecRule REQUEST_URI "!^/tor/running-routers$"                                        "chain"
>>   SecRule REQUEST_URI "!^/tor/dir\.z$"                                                 "chain"
>>   SecRule REQUEST_URI "!^/tor/server/(?>d|fp)/(?>[A-F0-9]{40})(?>\+[A-F0-9]{40})*\.z$" "chain"
>>   SecRule REQUEST_URI "!^/tor/status/fp/[A-F0-9]{40}(?>\+[A-F0-9]{40})*\.z$"

> Nice!  Thank you for that helpful information.
> I will definitely take note of that with the next version of JanusVM.
> Strict rules such as these are a very good idea, because it never hurts to
> check your  input  before processing it.

Actually they are horrible.  They already are out of date and would
reject proper directory requests.  Please don't do stuff like this.

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