SafeLine is a self-hosted web application firewall (WAF) and reverse proxy designed to protect web applications from attacks and exploits.
It filters, monitors, and blocks malicious HTTP and HTTPS traffic before it reaches a web application. SafeLine uses semantic analysis to detect a wide range of threats and provides additional mechanisms for controlling abusive traffic and automated clients.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Block web attacks including SQL injection, XSS, code injection, OS command injection, CRLF injection, XXE, SSRF, and path traversal.
- Rate limiting helps defend web applications against DoS attacks, brute-force attempts, traffic surges, and other forms of abuse.
- Anti-bot challenges distinguish human visitors from crawlers and malicious bots.
- Authentication challenges require visitors to enter a password before accessing protected applications.
- Dynamic protection encrypts HTML and JavaScript code dynamically.
- IP-based traffic controls.
- Web access control lists.
- Self-hosted deployment.
- Acts as a reverse proxy in front of web applications.
Website: github.com/chaitin/safeline
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Developer: Chaitin Tech
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
SafeLine is written in Go and C++. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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