Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:22:13 -0800 From: "Mitchell, Jason" <jmitc2@chmc.org> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Limiting number of downloads per user in Apache?? Message-ID: <E06C2328A250D21195E300009296A7C80456D9CC@s101.chmc.org>
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>Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of people >are behind internet proxies; AOL, for example, has many millions of >members, but only a few hundred thousand ip addresses. It's entirely >possible that hundreds of different people using browsers on their >own personal computers could have requests sent from the same IP >address. It's more than possible, but in fact quite common. > >There is _no_ way to track users in a foolproof manner. Sorry. My web page is pretty small, just a personal page, but it does host quite a few files (2GB worth or so). I'm not concerned about blocking multiple people going through a common proxy server, I highly doubt that will ever come up as I only get maybe a dozen different people hitting my site in any given day. Even so, I only want to stop those people from opening 4-5 browsers to get 10 files all at once. Thanks for all the feedback! -Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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