Purpose

To learn more about DoS/related attacks, I:

1. built a socket-level web-server, hosting some demo applications.
2. developed various DoS/DDoS/etc attacks to successfully attack the server
3. Implemented security mechaisms to protect the server against such attacks

A documentation of my notes / research is available in report.pdf above.

Screenshots

Server working as expected:

Example client website, hosted on server (there are a few, in the /client_websites directory:

Effect of attacks on server:

Effect of attacks after server fortifications:

How to Run

1. to start web server, naavigate to /iteration1 (or /iteration2 for fortified), run python3 web_server.py.
2. to run a client website on the running server, on a browser visit the url of format: server_URL:port/client_website_dir_name. e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8080/messagingSite
3. to run various attacks, open another terminal window, navigate to /attacker directory, run of format: python3 ATTACK_NAME.py.