chaitin/SafeLine
SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.
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SafeLine - Make your web apps secure 🏠 Website | 📖 Docs | 🔍 Live Demo | 🙋♂️ Discord | 中文版 🏆 Achievements SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits. A web application firewall helps protect web apps by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the Internet. It typically protects web apps from attacks such as SQL injection, XSS, code injection, os command injection, CRLF injection, ldap injection, xpath injection, RCE, XXE, SSRF, path traversal, backdoor, bruteforce, http-flood, bot abused, among others. By deploying a WAF in front of a web application, a shield is placed between the web application and the Internet. While a proxy server protects a client machine’s identity by using an intermediary, a WAF is a type of reverse-proxy, protecting the server from exposure by…
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- 👋 INTRODUCTION
- 💡 How It Works
- ⚡️ Screenshots
- 🔥 FEATURES
- 🧩 Showcases
- 🚀 Quickstart
- 📦 Installing
- ⚙️ Protecting Web Apps
- 📋 More Information
- Effect Evaluation
- Is SafeLine Production-Ready?
- 🌟 Community Recognition
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What this repository does
SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.
Repository facts
- Owner
- chaitin
- Primary language
- Go
- Stars
- 23,125
- Forks
- 1,588
- Open issues + pull requests
- 54
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2023-04-12T11:30:14.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-22T02:30:56.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: api-gateway, application-security, appsec, blueteam, bruteforce, captcha, cve, cybersecurity, firewall, hackers, http-flood, security, self-hosted, sql-injection, vulnerability, waf, web-application-firewall, web-security, websecurity, xss
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