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HTTP Request Throttle by IP and UserAgent

Problem this snippet solves: This is a modification of Kirk Bauer's iRule found here: https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/http-request-throttle The modification is for rate limiting individual IP...
Published Mar 15, 2017
Version 1.0
BIG-IP
iRules
security
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Jul 15, 2020

Thanks for making this iRule. I changed the HTTP response from "403 Forbidden" to "429 Too Many Requests" because my site was getting flooded with requests from Googlebots.