Rack::UTF8Sanitizer vs SecureHeaders

Rack::UTF8Sanitizer

Rack::UTF8Sanitizer is a Rack middleware which cleans up invalid UTF8 characters in request URI and headers. (by whitequark)

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SecureHeaders

Manages application of security headers with many safe defaults (by github)

Security secure-headers Csp Hsts referrer-policy Rack Middleware xframe-options Ruby Cookie content-security-policy

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Rack::UTF8Sanitizer		SecureHeaders
	Project
-	Mentions	2
306	Stars	3,129
-	Growth	0.4%
5.7	Activity	4.2
11 days ago	Latest Commit	8 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Rack::UTF8Sanitizer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rack::UTF8Sanitizer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Rack::UTF8Sanitizer yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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.

4 Essential Security Tools To Level Up Your Rails Security
10 projects | dev.to | 31 May 2023

The secure_headers gem will automatically apply several headers that are related to security. This includes:
Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
63 projects | dev.to | 6 Aug 2021

add secure_headers

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Rack::UTF8Sanitizer and SecureHeaders you can also consider the following projects:

Rack::Attack - Rack middleware for blocking & throttling

Metasploit - Metasploit Framework

Clamby - ClamAV interface to your Ruby on Rails project.

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

RbNaCl - Ruby FFI binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library (a.k.a. libsodium)

BeEF - The Browser Exploitation Framework Project

Rack::ContentSecurityPolicy

bundler-audit - Patch-level verification for Bundler

Rack::JsonWebTokenAuth

Hashids - A small Ruby gem to generate YouTube-like hashes from one or many numbers. Use hashids when you do not want to expose your database ids to the user.