[ic] Re: ALERT: bad pipe signal received for /page.html

[Kevin Walsh]

Ron Phipps <ron at endpoint.com> wrote:
> One thing that was especially nice with mod_interchange is that I
> could easily add files to  DropRequestList, this helped when we
> were attacked by a worm that was trying to exploit a XMLRPC bug
> which had the side effect of hanging IC due to a parsing bug.  I
> wasn't sure how to fix the parsing bug, but added the filename to
> the drop list and IC no longer hung.     
> 
Just for the record, the DoS bug referenced above has been fixed now.
It was nice to be able to drop the crafty requests while the bug was
being investigated.

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