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slowloris(1)

slowloris1

Security testing tool for web servers

Usage

slowloris [OPTION] ... HOST

Overview

Open source tool used to perform Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on web
servers. Slowloris exploits a vulnerability in web servers called “Keep-Alive”
to exhaust server resources and make them inaccessible.

Usage

slowloris [OPTIONS] host

Options

-p, --port

Specifies the target web server's port (default: 80).

-s, --sockets

Specifies the number of simultaneous sockets to use (default: 100).

-v, --verbose

Increases logging level for terminal output.

-ua, --randuseragents

Randomizes user agents with each request.

-x, --useproxy

Utilizes a SOCKS5 proxy for connections.

--https

Uses the HTTPS protocol for requests.

--sleep

Sets a sleep time interval between each header sent.

Examples

Example 1:
$ slowloris -p 80 -s 200 example.com

Example 2: $ slowloris -x --proxy-host=proxy.example.com --proxy-port=1080 example.com

Authors

Slowloris was created by: Gokberk Yaltirakli <[email protected]>

This manual page was written by Josenison Ferreira da Silva <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Bug reports

Report bugs to https://github.com/gkbrk/slowloris/issues

From slowloris 0.2.6+git20230430.890f72d-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.