Rack::Attack VS SecureHeaders

Compare Rack::Attack vs SecureHeaders and see what are their differences.

Rack::Attack

Rack middleware for blocking & throttling (by rack)
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Rack::Attack SecureHeaders
13 2
5,467 3,121
0.5% 0.1%
7.1 4.2
19 days ago 7 months ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Rack::Attack

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rack::Attack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-28.

SecureHeaders

Posts with mentions or reviews of SecureHeaders. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-31.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Rack::Attack and SecureHeaders you can also consider the following projects:

Metasploit - Metasploit Framework

Rack::Protection - NOTE: This project has been merged upstream to sinatra/sinatra

rspec-rails - RSpec for Rails 6+

BeEF - The Browser Exploitation Framework Project

Rack::UTF8Sanitizer - Rack::UTF8Sanitizer is a Rack middleware which cleans up invalid UTF8 characters in request URI and headers.

rack-throttle - Rack middleware for rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests.

Rack::ContentSecurityPolicy

Gitrob - Reconnaissance tool for GitHub organizations

Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications