Innovation Award
 April 2005
Number 2 |
The excess of simultaneous accesses to a site that may be happening in a given moment is one of the causes that can make a site run slower or even stop running.
Sometimes the excess of simultaneous accesses may be caused by a single user that is using automated robots to quickly retrieve all the site pages, or even by badly intentioned users that deliberately want to cause harm to the site by flooding it with an excessive number of simultaneous requests.
This class can help minimizing the harm that flood attempts may cause by keeping track of the IP addresses of the users accessing each page. Then it can determine when the users of a certain IP addresses are executing an excessive number of accesses so a block may be established for a given period.
Manuel Lemos |
This class can be used to detect and protect a Web site from attempts to flood it with too many requests. It also allows to protect the site from automatic downloading many pages or files from the same IP address.
The detection of flood is determine according to a set of parameters indicating the maximal allowed number of requests for the certain time interval. It is possible to set several parameters at once in order to perform more effective protection.
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