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Filip_Verlaeckt's avatar
Filip_Verlaeckt
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Sep 17, 2009

Queuing client requests on bigip

Hi     I need to solve the following issue.   Say I have 1000 simultaneous requests (POSTs) to my single webserver which can process - say - 10 requests per second. Is there a way to ...
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Colin_Walker_12
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Sep 17, 2009
The nearest to this that I've seen done wouldn't work with POSTs, only GETs.

 

 

The method was to count the connections to the server and when the threshold was reached, insert a custom cookie then use HTTP::respond to send back a "please hold" type queuing page to the user that had a built in meta refresh. The cookie could then be used to prioritize those that have already been queued (or those that have been queued more than x times, or whatever you wanted), allowing them in first when the server had more free connections.

 

 

Colin