Pattern matching odd HTTP request

Bill McGonigle mcgonigle at medicalmedia.com
Thu Sep 20 15:26:47 UTC 2001



On Thursday, September 20, 2001, at 10:36 AM, Noah wrote:

> I haven't tried it myself (yet... it's on the plate), but mod_tsunami
> (http://bert.tuxfamily.org/mod_tsunami/) may work better. It limits the
> number of connections on a per-directory basis, using the apache
> scoreboard. The primary issue I had with mod_throttle when I was looking
> at it (a few months back) was that it was fairly CPU intensive. This may
> or may not be an issue depending on how much traffic you push on a
> "normal" day (whatever that is).
>

Looks like a good module, but in this case the server hasn't received a 
GET yet (and won't), so I don't think it would have a chance to do any 
URI pattern matching...

-Bill




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