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mahnsc
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Jul 31, 2008

Web Service Throttling

My customer is looking to me to write an irule that will perform two things against web service based traffic. After a threshold is reached, they want to delay responses for some period of time. Aft...
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Patrick_Chang_7
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Aug 01, 2008
http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/HTTPRequestThrottle.html

 

is a good example of what you want.

 

 

Discard or send an HTTP response

 

Depends upon the purpose. You could send an HTTP 403 (permission denied), but abusers will know they have been rejected and could retry immediately. If you discard, the client would have to wait for the read/write timeout limit to make sure he wasn't getting a reply.