Re: [tlug] dropping apache requests

[Kevin Coyner <kevin@example.com>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:06:43PM +0900, Brett Robson wrote......

> Back all tanned from a 10 days of sun, beer, sun, beer and great
> food in Thailand (and with a broken tooth and infected cut on my
> foot).
> 
> Back to work... 
> 
> Anyone know a way of dropping a request in Apache as if you never
> received it, ie not even sending a 403 page back. The only way I
> can think of doing it is at the network level or via iptable
> (etc), which is not an option.


Not sure if this will do it for you or not, but consider Apache's
mod-security.  A good, quick and easy to read write-up on it can be
found at:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/65

Kevin

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