The cover image is a real life slow loris. While it is a super cute animal
please don't buy it as a pet
Slow loris is a denial of service attack...
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That's a rather unfair statement. When Apache HTTPD was first created, in 1995, epoll() did not exist on sockets.
The MPM event module exists for quite a while now (2012), and it does not have a major issue with slowloris. But just like with the other non-prefork MPMs, not all Apache modules are safe to be used with the event MPM. Most notably mod_php was not thread safe.
Truth is that I was not trying to point fingers at Apache for bad desing or whatever.
The real point is that a design choice made in 1995, became an attack vector 14 years later ☺