Hi,
I'm using nginx as reversed proxy, using the proxy module.
Whenever i get a response code >= 400 from the upstream server, i'm
redirecting the client to a different url.
This is the configuration i use (simplified):
location ~ "^/proxy/host_(.*)/fallback_(.*)" {
proxy_pas
Hi,
For my purposes IP address is an acceptable definition of a user. In any
case I would use the commercial subscription if it would help with this
problem.
Rate limiting doesn't help because I don't know ahead of time whether a user
will make many fast requests, or fewer slow requests - and in
First, you need to define 'user', which is not a trivial problem.
Unless you use the commercial subscription, it is hard to tie a connection
to a session. You can use components in fornt of nginx to identify them
(usually with cookies).
Thus 'user' in nginx FOSS usually means 'IP address'.
Now, yo
