Re: [Emerging-Sigs] what s the real difference here?

[Matt Watchinski <mwatchinski () sourcefire com>]

content:"foo"; http_uri; is preferred.  Other than consistency with
the other content modifiers http_client_body, filedata, etc its easier
to parse one thing and not two.

Cheers,
-matt

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:
> On Jul 14, 2010, at 12:22 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
> > On 7/13/2010 19:10, Joel Esler wrote:
> > > On Jul 13, 2010, at 6:58 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
> > > > On 7/13/2010 18:40, Joel Esler wrote:
> > > > > CC'ing Snort-Sigs list:
> > > > >
> > > > > Copy and paste out of the manual for http_uri:
> > > > >
> > > > > "Using a content rule option followed by a http uri modifier is the same as using a uricontent by itself."
> > > >
> > > > that's what i thought... so... if i may be so bold... why the change in format?
> > > > which is better? is one preferred over the other? which one?
> > >
> > > Not sure of the reasoning behind it.  Maybe a Devel or VRT can chime in on that one.
> >
> > a huge number of "modified active" signatures had only the change i'm asking
> > about in them... switching from "uricontent:blah;" to "content:blah; http_uri;"
> > and nothing else...
> >
> > and so my curiosity was highly aroused and here we are ;)
>
> I noticed that as well when I was looking at the botnet-cnc and what not (new rule categories) rules.
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