Rate Limiting: Live Demo
Sep 30, 2016Timothy Fong
Summary
Introduced Cloudflare Rate Limiting, a feature to control traffic based on request rates per client IP address, cookie, or other attributes. The post details configuration options including URL patterns (with wildcards), threshold (requests per minute), action (block/simulate), timeout, and response body type/content. It also mentions potential future enhancements like specifying methods, response codes, headers, and cookies, and extending mitigation options to CAPTCHA.
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