That method can help with smaller attacks, but if the attack's large enough, it'll still put extra overhead on the web server and cause it to bog down.
Attempting to filter a layer 7 flood AT layer 7 generally isn't very effective. You need to stop attack traffic -before- it makes it to your application/web server.
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