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Teivin's avatar
Teivin
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Feb 22, 2021

Rate-limit based on User-Agent String

Hello, below is the code I'm using to accomplish this. Right now, the count is timing out every second instead of every 360 seconds as listed below. Does anyone see why this would happen?   when ...
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iRules
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boneyard's avatar
boneyard
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Feb 27, 2021

i dont do iRules well from my mind but i feel there is something tricky with creating tables based on the time. 

table set "Count_[HTTP::header User-Agent]_${epoch}" 1 indef $UAStimeout

doesnt that generate a new table like with every new request on a different time?

if i would trouble shoot this i'd add some log lines during the checking and creating of tables to see the values that are used and returned.