> What I really need is an HTTP header or meta-tag or something that I > can use to tell clients to limit themselves to a single connection. > > I haven't been able to find such a thing, but I'm hoping I've > overlooked something...
That will only go so far. Suppose you tell web browsers "no more than 3 connections", then get hit by 30 nearly simultaneous, but separate clients. Then you still wind up allowing up to 90 connections. There should be a parameter in your web server's config file to limit the number of simultaneously active threads or processes. It's been a long time for me, and you don't mention what brand of server you are running, but ISTR that Apache has/had such parameters. (Also, while this is off-topic for comp.lang.python, most people here are a helpful bunch, and recognizing that it is off-topic, will want to reply off-list. You don't give them that option with "invalid@invalid.invalid" as an email address.) Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
