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mtobkes_64700
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May 12, 2010

Rate-Limiting Crawlers

Hi I found this iRule here that will limit requests to 1 request per n seconds. I would like to know how I'd be able to allow n requests per 1 second, e.g. allow 5 requests per 1 second.     wh...
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May 13, 2010
Thanks Aaron. I changed the line however I now get this TCL error in my logs:

 

 

TCL error: googlebot_rate-limit_vb5 HTTP_REQUEST - invalid command name 1273758282 while executing $::active_crawlers$user_agent $curr_time