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@@ -22,7 +22,26 @@ shipped in one image, with two commands that do this together:
 The site keeps answering while `waf` is down, slow or restarting: without an
 answer in time, `rproxy` passes the request to the app.
 
-It protects against:
+`rproxy` also protects the app on its own, whether or not `waf` answers. With
+the default settings, `rproxy`:
+
+- answers `400` to a malformed request, such as a broken header line or a
+  missing `Host`;
+- answers `405` to a method it does not pass on, such as `TRACE`;
+- answers `431` to a request line and headers over 32 KiB together;
+- gives the visitor 60 seconds to send the request line and headers, and then 60
+  seconds more for the whole request to reach the app;
+- answers `413` to a request body over 100 MiB;
+- gives the app's answer 30 minutes to reach the visitor, counted from the end
+  of the request;
+- answers `502` in place of an app's answer whose body is over 1 GiB, or cuts it
+  off if it has started;
+- closes a kept-open connection after 120 seconds idle.
+
+`rproxy` does not limit the number of headers. `waf` limits the number of
+headers and cookies, and the length of the request line and of each header line.
+
+Together, `rproxy` and `waf` protect against:
 
 - Scrapers that fetch every page of a site, all day. Each client gets a limit on
   requests and on body bytes per minute, per hour and per day. The defaults
@@ -44,8 +63,6 @@ It protects against:
       limit, so that they are banned sooner;
     - refuse or limit clients on a blocklist, a DNS blocklist, or with a high
       AbuseIPDB score.
-- Slow and oversized requests. Every request and every answer has a time limit
-  and a size limit.
 
 For the operator, it: