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ModSecurity vs Xapian

A side-by-side look at ModSecurity and Xapian. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

ModSecurity

ModSecurity

Security & Privacy

ModSecurity is an open source web application firewall that provides protection against common web attacks like XSS, SQLi, RFI, etc. It works by intercepting and inspecting all HTTP traffic between a web app and clients.

web-securityxss-protectionsql-injection-protectionopen-source
Xapian

Xapian

Development

Xapian is an open source search engine library that allows developers to add advanced searching capabilities to their applications. It supports features like full text and boolean search, spelling correction, query expansion, relevance ranking, and more.

searchindexingfull-text-searchboolean-searchspelling-correctionquery-expansionrelevance-ranking

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