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Patrik_Jonsson
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Nov 20, 2013

Throttle incoming requests per minute

Hi Guys! Trying to write an iRule that throttles incoming requests but I can't get this very simple example to work. Basically my problem seems to be that the global connections variable never is bei...
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Patrik_Jonsson
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Nov 21, 2013

Here's the sample rule I wrote to test the tables in case anyone else has the same issue.

Throttle number of requests per minute
when HTTP_REQUEST {

    table add [IP::client_addr] 1 indefinite 10
    if { [table incr [IP::client_addr]] > 4 } {

        HTTP::respond 200 content "Too many"

    } else {
        HTTP::respond 200 content "OK"

    }
}