Re: Proper Method and/or Place to Declare HTTP_SERVERS port?

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

Sorry, you're gonna have to edit the rules to do what you want.

The rules probably should use some kind of var HTTP_PORT so this can easily 
be changed in snort.conf, but that might lead to people thinking they can 
use a comma delimited list of ports like you can for IP addresses.

http_decode is a preprocessor that "normalizes" the data so that certain 
tactics for avoiding detection are rendered useless. As best I understand, 
http_decode basically deals with the "alternate" ways of encoding a byte 
allowed in http (ie: %32 instead of 2) and converts them to common ascii 
prior to passing them along to the rules.


At 08:07 PM 5/8/2002 +0000, Vadim Pushkin wrote:
> I am using port 8180 versus port 80. I would prefer not messing around 
> with all of the rules files. I've noticed that the rules files themselves 
> specify port 80, but my servers are listening on port 8180. Is there a way 
> to change this in the snort.conf file? I've tried setting:
>
> preprocessor http_decode: 8180 -unicode -cginull
>
> but I still get alarms for hosts possibly port scanning my HTTP_SERVERS.
>
> Thank you
>
> Vadim
>
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