On 6/9/05, Krist van Besien <krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > We run a web portal for mobile phones. The problem we have is that > some phones have buggy web clients, that sometimes sent bursts of 200 > or more of identical requests, that overwhelm the application server > our webserver forwards its requests to. > > Is there a way to filter these requests out? I cannot filter on IP > address, as every request comes via the WAP gateway, and thus has the > same originating IP, but these requests all have a HTTP header (set by > the gateway) that is unique for each individual phone. > > We are running apache 2.x on Solaris. Is there a way to solve this? I don't know of any easy way to do this. You could look at something like mod_bwshare (search on http://modules.apache.org/). This limit by IP address, but you could probably hack the code to limit by some HTTP request header. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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