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SSRF Protection for Rails

February 02, 2026

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Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

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Making requests to user-defined URLs can be insecure. DNS can point to your local network and attackers can use this to mess with your internal systems.