RE: How to resist user click abuse in apache?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Artem Kuchin [mailto:matrix@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:32 AM
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  How to resist user click abuse in apache?
> 
> Here is the situation. Heavy db driven site takes about 1-1.5 second
> to load some pages. While loading  such page it takes a lot of memory
> and cpu. It is not a problem it is used normally, but some users are
> very hasty and stupid. When they do not get page within 0.1 seconds
> they click the link to the page again, sometimes 5 times a second.

I wouldn't call those users "hasty and stupid"... I'd call them "normal".

The à la mode solution to this type of thing is to use javascript to play a "loading..." animation and disable the user input - look up dojo, scriptaculous, prototype etc. for toolkits that do this sort of thing.

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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> 
> What would be a good way to resist such abuse? 
> For example,  allow certain amount of simultaneous connections to
> some locations and another number of simultaneous connections for
> another location (for example, more connections to the dir where
> images are stored).
> 
> --
> Artem
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