[pmwiki-users] connection limit

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:45:56AM -0700, dso wrote:
> I have at least one user that seems to be using a "web page change
> checker" program but he has it set to check every 30-seconds.  This
> eating up bandwidth and if more people do it, it could be a problem.
> 
> What is a good way to limit connections to x connections per y time
> period and I'd like to show a lower bandwidth page with an explanation.
> 
> Is this possible to do with pmwiki?

This sort of thing generally makes more sense at the webserver
level more than the PmWiki one.

Of course, someone could come up with a recipe to have PmWiki do
bandwidth limiting.

Also, do you have any way of determining the "user agent" field 
for the 30-second requests?  That would make it easier to 
filter the requests and take appropriate responses.

Personally, I'd probably just block any one who ran such a
program on my server at 30-second intervals.

Pm