Closing connection from an accept_filter(9)

David DeSimone fox at verio.net
Sat Oct 18 09:25:46 UTC 2008


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?

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