Rate Limit HTTP Requests

Problem this snippet solves: This rule limits HTTP POST requests by user decoded from the Authorization: header. Only $::maxRate requests are allowed within a $::windowSecs -second window for any si...

Published Mar 18, 2015

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Sebastian_Jäkel

Nimbostratus

Aug 21, 2019

Would not return a 501, it's not a server fault, it's a client fault and the client is rate limited. Maybe a "429 Too Many Requests" would be better, see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585