On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 22:16 +0100, Ryan Barclay wrote:
> A simple question I imagine, but I am wondering how I would combat DoS
> attacks by users holding the REFRESH key on their browsers?
>
> I have reproduced this error on a PHP-MYSQL website and when I hold the
> REFRESH key on for a while, page gen times shoot up dramatically and
> hundreds of processes are created.
>
> Is there a way I can stop this/limit the connections/processes in apache
> conf/php.ini?
>
> What can I do to combat this method of DoS?
Check if the following is enabled in php.ini
ignore_user_abort
Or in the code via:
ignore_user_abort()
Cheers,
Rob.
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