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Re: x-forwarded-for an IDS capability


From: Seth Hall <hall.692 () osu edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:56:34 -0400


On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:27 AM, James wrote:

Does anyone know of an IDS vendor/or opensource product that has the
capability of associating
an ip address in an x-forwarded-for http header with an IDS event ?
This includes events that fire on a download as well so there would
need to be some
kind of internal http state management.

That would be very straight forward to implement in Bro since it's possible to build whatever arbitrary state you'd like to build in Bro policy scripts. It would probably be an afternoon project for someone familiar with Bro scripting.

  .Seth

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Seth Hall
Network Security - Office of the CIO
The Ohio State University
Phone: 614-292-9721




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