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Detect and protect from attempts to flood a site

This package is unmaintained.

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License: LGPL

Description

The HTTP_FloodControl package can be used to detect and protect a
Web site from attempts to flood it with too many requests. It also allows to
protect the site from automatic downloading many pages or files from the same
IP address, session ID or other unique identifier.

The detection of flood is determine according to a set of parameters indicating
the maximal allowed number of requests for the certain time interval. It is
possible to set several parameters at once in order to perform more effective
protection.

The package uses various storage containers (regular files, DB, MDB, MDB2) to
handle counter logs.

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IDStatusTypeVersionDateSummary
#10786ClosedBug0.1.12007-04-20Packages installs in wrong directory
#11608AnalyzedReq0.1.12007-07-16Memcached-Container
#12969ClosedReq0.1.12008-01-24Redundant code in FloodControl.php: mt_srand
#12972BogusDoc0.1.12008-01-24$uniqueId must be a valid filename when using File container
#13182ClosedBug0.1.12008-02-23Bad Regex in getUserIP
#14451BogusDoc2008-08-04Redirected to PORN Site!
#17803ClosedBug0.1.12010-08-23missing code svn repository