Re: Blocking open web proxies

[Walter Campbell <wcampbel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Some discussion on the ircd-hybrid coders list came up with this quote
from Isomer (ircu coder):

The other registration thing we've done is to alias 'POST' to 'QUIT'
during the registration phase ({ m_quit, m_ignore, m_ignore,
m_ignore....}) which drastically cut down the number of the web proxy
flood scripts.  (at least one of them uses POST)

That might be an idea.

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Hanno Foest wrote:

> On Sunday, Mar 04 2001 at 00:37:41 +0100, Jakub Vlasek wrote:
>
> > Current iauth doesn't support web proxy scanning. We want to add this
> > feature into new version of iauth. Adding this check to current iauth
> > would be possible, but very time and resources inefficient.
>
> On our small (5 servers) network we have a hacked iauth running which does
> such a check, but it is cumbersome indeed... depending of the kind of
> firewalling the users do, there can be a huge delay when connecting to a
> server, and I don't know how good the check works in the first place.
> If someone wants to have a look at the code, I think I can provide it
> (it wasn't me who wrote it, though).
>
> Hanno
>
>