From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 16:23:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zardoz.chmc.org (zardoz.chmc.org [146.79.130.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD8F837B6A1 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:23:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by zardoz.chmc.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA04322 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:35:52 -0800 Received: from s102.chmc.org(146.79.130.7) by zardoz via smap (V2.1) id xma004271; Thu, 11 Jan 01 17:34:49 -0800 Received: by s102.chmc.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:22:16 -0800 Message-ID: From: "Mitchell, Jason" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Limiting number of downloads per user in Apache?? Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:22:13 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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