Top Level :: HTTP

Package Information: HTTP_FloodControl

» Summary» License
Detect and protect from attempts to flood a siteLGPL
» Current Release» Bug Summary
0.1.1 (alpha) was released on 2007-03-22 (Changelog)
Development Roadmap (next release: 0.1.0 in -570 days!!, 0% complete)
  • Package Maintenance Rank: 98 of 162 packages with open bugs
  • Number of open bugs: 3 (6 total bugs)
  • Average age of open bugs: 346 days
  • Oldest open bug: 542 days
» Description
The HTTP_FloodControl package can be used to detect and protect a
Web site from attempts to flood it with too many requests. It also allows to
protect the site from automatic downloading many pages or files from the same
IP address, session ID or other unique identifier.

The detection of flood is determine according to a set of parameters indicating
the maximal allowed number of requests for the certain time interval. It is
possible to set several parameters at once in order to perform more effective
protection.

The package uses various storage containers (regular files, DB, MDB, MDB2) to
handle counter logs.
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