[Oisf-users] Suricata 1.4 http keywords in rule options, how does matching occur for http_header?

Matt matt at somedamn.com
Thu Jan 24 14:15:41 UTC 2013


I would find that useful, especially if it increases efficiency in the 
same way as http_user_agent.  Among other things, I use Suricata to 
match blacklists of known bad URLs, and all those rules include a 
content match for the HTTP Host.

Matt

On 1/24/2013 3:13 AM, Peter Manev wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Anoop Saldanha 
> <anoopsaldanha at gmail.com <mailto:anoopsaldanha at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com
>     <mailto:petermanev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> However, any of the techniques mentioned above isn't a
>     foolproof way
>     >> to match on the host header.  The right way would be to provide
>     a new
>     >> keyword called "http_host".
>     >>
>     > Anoop or Vincent would you please put in feature request for that?
>     >
>
>     We should probably consult users/rule-writers if such a keyword would
>     be useful to them?
>
>     --
>     Anoop Saldanha
>
> sure
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Peter Manev
>
>
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