Method and firewall for preventing HTTP POST flooding attacks
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- HUAWEI DIGITAL TECH (CHENGDU) CO LTD
- Publication Date
- 2010-07-28
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
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technical field
[0001] The invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a method and a firewall for preventing HTTP POST flooding attacks, and is suitable for preventing Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol) POST flooding (Flood) attacks. Background technique
[0002] A network (Web) server plays an extremely important role in current Internet applications, such as providing services such as web page browsing, email sending and receiving, resource downloading, etc. These services are usually based on the HTTP protocol. In an open network environment, web servers are vulnerable to HTTP Flood attacks, which is a denial of service (DOS: Denial of Service) attack, that is, attackers use a large number of service requests or system vulnerabilities to occupy service resources, causing the server to overload , an attack method that cannot respond to requests from other normal users. HTTP Flood attacks are mainly designed for...