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Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks" 2009
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Slowloris must wait for all the sockets to become available before it's successful at consuming them, so if it's a high traffic website, it may take a while for the site to free up it's sockets.
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So it's a bit of a race condition, but one that Slowloris will eventually always win - and sooner than later.
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This is because other users of the system must finish their requests before the sockets become available for Slowloris to consume.
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Slowloris holds connections open by sending partial HTTP requests.
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Unlike an old school Denial of Service attack, which ties up a website by bombarding the thing with epic amounts of traffic, Slowloris achieves the same result with a handful of packets.
The Register 2009
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There are a lot of methods, example: Flood, Slowloris, ...
Digital Point Forums Archimonde 2009
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