Closing connection from an accept_filter(9)

Alfred Perlstein alfred at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 20 17:37:40 UTC 2008


* David DeSimone <fox at verio.net> [081018 02:25] wrote:
> Eugene M. Kim <gene at nttmcl.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to close a connection from an accept filter, for
> > example, in order to prevent an incoming connection with a malformed
> > request body from ever reaching the userland?
> 
> How would you propose to find out what is in the request body without
> first accepting the connection?

By writing a custom accept filter! :)

-Alfred


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