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Nigiri
Nigiri

Reputation: 3639

Should I worry about DoS attacks to files in static_dir?

I'm thinking to implement a feature which blocks DoS attacks in Google App Engine for GO.
First I thought to implement it in the main request handler function but now I wonder "what about files in static_dir?
Should I worry about that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (1)

Paul Collingwood
Paul Collingwood

Reputation: 9116

Static files are not served by your application directly so can't be DoS'd as such. The attacker would be attacking Google, not your instances.

See this question for more details: Does Google App Engine use google CDN to distribute static resources?

Where on one of the linked presentations it's noted that

requests for Static Content on Google Network are routed to the nearest Google datacenter.

So no, you probably don't have to worry about an attacker being able to make those resources unavailable to other users.

Upvotes: 1

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