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by g4zj 815 days ago
> Serve traffic behind a load balancer that has a WAF

What is a WAF?

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Web Application Firewall.

It’s a feature of an LB that consolidates the actions of blocking ports except for the ones you are using, fail-fast on paths that scrapers tend to check (e.g. /wp-admin, /phpMyAdmin) so it doesn’t end up in normal request logging, set rate limits, fail-to-ban conditions, etc.

Has anyone had any luck with Coraza on HAProxy?
Web application firewall