That's not a bad idea, I will look into. Thanks again for the help.
Peter Crowther wrote: > >> From: adamle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> I thought of maybe putting a filter on the certain url >> pattern that I want, >> but instead of turning back the user, I could put his thread >> to sleep for >> aset amount of time and have him try again. Hopefully by >> then some of the >> earlier threads will have finished and he can be let through. >> >> Do you some inherent problem with this? > > I'd always be cautious about consuming any resource for an extended > period - in this case a thread. An attacker could starve Tomcat of > threads by flooding the system with requests for the slow-processing > pages. You probably wouldn't get a crash; you *would* get very slow > service elsewhere. > > Is there no way you can hand back a 'try later' response, even using > something tacky like a refresh header? > > - Peter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Limit-Num-Requests-tf2858769.html#a7988094 Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
