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werner_v_113449
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Apr 11, 2018

irule for rate limit based on http error codes & client ip

Hi ,   I'm looking for an 1 irule (or maybe 2 combined) to rate limit http response error codes coming from same client .   What we want to create is a check where a client that is coming is i...
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werner_v_113449
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Apr 11, 2018

yes,

 

same client IP can get 2 * 400 error in a given timeframe . If it's exceeded , client IP needs to be blocked for a given time for avoiding retries.

 

After given time, all can be rest again .

 

We use some client IP rate limit irule . But they are simply based on client IP and how many times client IP is hitting specific Virtual Server/Uri . But here we need to count the http response error code . And block client IP if it get the same error page more than 2 times in specific timeframe.