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SafeLine

by chaitin

SafeLine is a self-hosted web application firewall (WAF) designed to protect web applications from various attacks, including SQL injection and XSS.

Ready to useEstablished, openly licensed, and no red flags in its documentation.

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Stars
23k
Licence
GPL-3.0
Runs on
A small server
Setup
Moderate
Language
Go
Age
1293 days

What you can do with it

  • Protect web apps from SQL injection and XSS attacks
  • Implement rate limiting to prevent DoS attacks
  • Use anti-bot challenges to block malicious users

Could replace

  • CloudFlare

Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.

Ways a business could use it

  • Protect web applications from common security threats to prevent data breaches
  • Implement rate limiting to reduce server load during peak traffic times

Can you use it commercially?

Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

SafeLine can be installed using the provided install guide.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Checked 26 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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