From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 17:42: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeze.org (www.bellnetworks.net [208.177.187.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D11537B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:41:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jim@localhost) by freeze.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA52853; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:41:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed from queue /var/spool/alt_queue X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed by jim with -C /web/siteinfo/freeze/mail/sendmail.cf Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:41:46 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze X-Sender: jim@www.bellnetworks.net To: Christoph Sold Cc: "Paul M . Lambert" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Limiting number of downloads per user in Apache?? In-Reply-To: <3A5E4BC6.3ED24DA8@i-clue.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Christoph Sold wrote: > Jim Freeze schrieb: > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Paul M . Lambert wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jim Freeze wrote: > > Visitors can always be tracked with an id and password if bandwidth is > > that important. > > And it's easy to get just another five-minute-password, if you're really > tempted to do so. > Yes. I think most good user/passwords today use email with email authentication. So, one would have to have multiple email addresses and be willing to go through the email authentication negotiation. I have done this to get around 'online coupons', but doubt it would be worth it for a download. By the time I get another account setup, I would have already made all my desired downloads. But, not to lose site of the big picture. If there are 10 files that a users wants from your site, let them have those ten files as fast as they can and then they leave and free up the resources for someone else. Plus, they are happy (one they get in.). With this method, you would only throttle the number of downloads, not caring about who is doing the download. Best Regards ==================================================== Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------- ** http://www.freeze.org ** ==================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message