[Info-vax] Apache... anyone built mod_limitipconn for VMS?

Paul Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Fri Jan 15 09:52:01 EST 2010


In article 
<c06482ea-71cd-4194-bcb1-986a355f614e at e27g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
 Mark  Round <mark.round at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> > Clients have normal access to the web site but downloads in the form of
> > ZIP archives (and these are large ZIP archives) are limited to only one
> > download per IP (eg. client).
> 
> Unless they happen to be behind a proxy, as is the case for many ISPs
> or businesses. In which case, restricting access by IP could be
> blocking a lot more than 1 person.

I haven't looked at the sources, but for the Apache 1.3 version of 
mod_limitipconn there's a patch to enable proxy client detection.

See:

<http://dominia.org/djao/limitipconn.html>

-- 
Paul Sture



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