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New action: pause

I have added a new action to the CVS, called "pause". It accepts one parameter, time in milliseconds, and blocks response to the request when a filter is triggered. I've been told that it can be really useful for blocking automated discovery tools.

Posted by ivanr at July 31, 2003 04:38 PM

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Cool. Thanks Ivan. Now I can take the "sleep" parameter out of my CGI scripts and use it in mod_security instead :) You are right, I have used the sleep time before and it can make vulnerability scanners such as Whisker abort if you set a high enough setting (I set 60 secs).

Keep up the good work.
-Ryan

Posted by: Ryan Barnett at August 3, 2003 05:04 PM