Lesson 8 of 11 · Security and performance
Security headers and rate limiting — the add_header inheritance trap, limit_req and limit_conn
Objective
Send security headers on every response, without them disappearing on some routes, hide the server version, and slow down brute force and bots with limit_req and limit_conn.
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