Re: [PHP] Limiting repetitive file access

2003-11-16 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Sunday 16 November 2003 10:45 pm, David Otton wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:52:31 -0500, you wrote: > >Recently, a 'user' attempted to access a restricted area of my site > >repetitively (spanning five hours) entering the same url repetitively > >[probably by script]. A massive log file was ge

Re: [PHP] Limiting repetitive file access

2003-11-16 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:52:31 -0500, you wrote: >Recently, a 'user' attempted to access a restricted area of my site >repetitively (spanning five hours) entering the same url repetitively >[probably by script]. A massive log file was generated. I would like to ban >such behavior by limiting the

Re: [PHP] Limiting repetitive file access

2003-11-15 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
Hi, While your solution is feasible it would still consume processor and memory because you are doing this at a very high level, you will be better of solving this at a lower level by a proper use of a firewall. What you have described sounds like a kiddie script attempt at a denial of service

[PHP] Limiting repetitive file access

2003-11-15 Thread Andre Dubuc
Hi, Recently, a 'user' attempted to access a restricted area of my site repetitively (spanning five hours) entering the same url repetitively [probably by script]. A massive log file was generated. I would like to ban such behavior by limiting the number of successive 'get's a user can do (say