I already said that we have a limit in the client code. I’m asking about a 
limit in Solr.

wunder
Walter Underwood
wun...@wunderwood.org
http://observer.wunderwood.org/  (my blog)

> On Jun 25, 2021, at 11:50 AM, Håvard Wahl Kongsgård 
> <haavard.kongsga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just create a proxy client between the user and solr. Set if page >= 500 ….
> else
> 
> Simple stuff
> 
> fre. 25. jun. 2021 kl. 19:20 skrev Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org>:
> 
>> Has anyone implemented protection against deep paging inside Solr? I’m
>> thinking about something like a max_rows parameter, where if start+rows was
>> greater than that, it would limit the max result to that number. Or maybe
>> just return a 400, that would be OK too.
>> 
>> I’ve had three or four outages caused by deep paging over the past dozen
>> years with Solr. We implement a limit in the client code, then someone
>> forgets to add it to the redesigned client code. A limit in the request
>> handler would be so much easier.
>> 
>> And yes, I know about cursor marks. We don’t want to enable deep paging,
>> we want to stop it.
>> 
>> wunder
>> Walter Underwood
>> wun...@wunderwood.org
>> http://observer.wunderwood.org/  (my blog)
>> 
>> --
> Håvard Wahl Kongsgård
> Data Scientist

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