[42745] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pattern matching odd HTTP request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill McGonigle)
Thu Sep 20 11:27:11 2001
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:26:47 -0400
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Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net>, Jake Khuon <khuon@GBLX.Net>,
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To: Noah <sitz@onastick.net>
From: Bill McGonigle <mcgonigle@medicalmedia.com>
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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
