ngx_http_response_body_module vs naxsi

ngx_http_response_body_module

Capture response body into nginx variable (by ZigzagAK)

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NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX (by nbs-system)

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ngx_http_response_body_module		naxsi
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1	Mentions	5
9	Stars	4,739
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
C	Language	C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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ngx_http_response_body_module

Posts with mentions or reviews of ngx_http_response_body_module. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Any free solutions for nginx logs with response body/request/headers
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 14 Apr 2021

naxsi

Posts with mentions or reviews of naxsi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-26.

nginx security best practice
1 project | /r/homelab | 1 Apr 2023
What (software, open source) WAF are you using with (open source) Nginx?
3 projects | /r/nginx | 26 May 2022

I was using Naxsi until recently, but changes to PCRE compatibility have broken it for now, and the most recent commit was around 6 months ago. I can't help with the code commits, so I'm looking for alternatives.
HowTo: WAF with NAXSI for Plex
1 project | /r/PleX | 5 Jan 2022

Ok, so whahaatt the fuckk is NAXSI? Well, NAXSI are a set of rules (aka MainRules) in the form of "does input match funky shit? blocckkked" for nginx. That's the gist of it. Nothing more to it. They're basically an industry standard and block 99% of funky shit.
Naxsi – Nginx Anti XSS and SQL Injection Module
1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 28 Nov 2021

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ngx_http_response_body_module and naxsi you can also consider the following projects:

nginx-module-vts - Nginx virtual host traffic status module

ModSecurity - ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. It has a robust event-based programming language which provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis.

OctopusWAF - OctopusWAF is a WAF( Web application firewall) with high performance, made in C language and use libevent.

ModSecurity-nginx - ModSecurity v3 Nginx Connector

openappsec - open-appsec is an open-source machine learning security engine that preemptively and automatically prevents threats against Web Application & APIs. It is available for NGINX, NGINX Ingress, Envoy (Soon), Kong (Soon), Ambassador (Soon).

GoAccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

nginx-vod-module - NGINX-based MP4 Repackager