diff --git a/.spellcheck-wordlist.txt b/.spellcheck-wordlist.txt
index d7fe4e63..b52232d2 100644
--- a/.spellcheck-wordlist.txt
+++ b/.spellcheck-wordlist.txt
@@ -366,4 +366,6 @@ HTML
 html
 balancer
 JupyterHub
-SSLProxyCACertificateFile
\ No newline at end of file
+SSLProxyCACertificateFile
+ANTISLOWLORIS
+slowloris
diff --git a/Dockerfile.rocky9 b/Dockerfile.rocky9
index 4f712902..0872093b 100755
--- a/Dockerfile.rocky9
+++ b/Dockerfile.rocky9
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ ARG TWOFACTOR_AUTH_APPS=""
 ARG ENABLE_PEERS=True
 ARG ENABLE_QUOTA=False
 ARG ENABLE_ACCOUNTING=False
+ARG ENABLE_ANTISLOWLORIS=False
 ARG PEERS_MANDATORY=False
 ARG PEERS_EXPLICIT_FIELDS=""
 ARG PEERS_CONTACT_HINT="authorized to invite you as peer"
@@ -1033,6 +1034,7 @@ ARG TWOFACTOR_AUTH_APPS
 ARG ENABLE_PEERS
 ARG ENABLE_QUOTA
 ARG ENABLE_ACCOUNTING
+ARG ENABLE_ANTISLOWLORIS
 ARG PEERS_MANDATORY
 ARG PEERS_EXPLICIT_FIELDS
 ARG PEERS_CONTACT_HINT
@@ -1247,6 +1249,7 @@ RUN ./generateconfs.py --source=. \
     --gdp_id_scramble=${GDP_ID_SCRAMBLE} --gdp_path_scramble=${GDP_PATH_SCRAMBLE} \
     --enable_quota=${ENABLE_QUOTA} --quota_backend="${QUOTA_BACKEND}" \
     --quota_update_interval=${QUOTA_UPDATE_INTERVAL} \
+    --enable_antislowloris=${ENABLE_ANTISLOWLORIS} \
     --quota_user_limit=${QUOTA_USER_LIMIT} --quota_vgrid_limit=${QUOTA_VGRID_LIMIT} \
     --enable_accounting=${ENABLE_ACCOUNTING} --accounting_update_interval=${ACCOUNTING_UPDATE_INTERVAL} \
     --storage_protocols="${STORAGE_PROTOCOLS}" \
diff --git a/doc/source/sections/configuration/variables.rst b/doc/source/sections/configuration/variables.rst
index 96a28fa1..f780e9d5 100644
--- a/doc/source/sections/configuration/variables.rst
+++ b/doc/source/sections/configuration/variables.rst
@@ -440,6 +440,9 @@ Variables
    * - ENABLE_ACCOUNTING
      - False
      - Enable additional storage accounting daemon and integration in the user pages.
+   * - ENABLE_ANTISLOWLORIS
+     - False
+     - Enable additional request timeout integration in apache to help foil slowloris-like attacks and drop resource hogging clients.
    * - ENABLE_GDP
      - False
      - Enable GDP mode for sensitive data with a lot of restrictions on access and logging