Observed arrival · 2026-10-30
gladios: nginx flood protection without a proxy
An open-source nginx add-on that challenges visitors’ browsers before requests reach an app, aiming to filter bots and HTTP floods without a separate service.
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✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
- For
- Operators running nginx servers exposed to HTTP floods
- Worth noticing
- The homepage reports 35–36k requests per second for valid-pass checks, measured on two cores.
Field notes
The page walks through a request flow from static challenge page to browser puzzle, signed cookie, and nginx verification. It gives example bypass rules for paths such as /.well-known/ and /api/, and lists nginx with njs 0.7.9+ as a requirement. Its performance table reports results for several request types on two cores; those figures are presented by the project, not independently confirmed here.
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✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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