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This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Code of Conduct.If your internet connection suddenly becomes slower than before or it just freezes when streaming (HD/4K Netflix or other) media files, playing online games, downloading or uploading large-sized materials on the web, you are probably encounter the known “Internet Throttling” thing… ContributingĬheck out the Contributing guide. Less on short-term, one-off hacks to block a particular attack. Rack::Attack aims to let developers quickly mitigate abusive requests and rely It is impractical if not impossible to block abusive clients completely. They hinder the security, performance, & availability of web applications. MotivationĪbusive clients range from malicious login crackers to naively-written scrapers. Rack::Attack complements tools like iptables and nginx's limit_conn_zone module. If a request is blocklisted or throttled, the response is a very simple Rack response.Ī single typical ruby web server thread can block several hundred requests per second. So try to keep the number of throttle checks per request low.
Throttles usually require a network roundtrip to your cache server(s), The overhead of running Rack::Attack is typically negligible (a few milliseconds per request),īut it depends on how many checks you've configured, and how long they take. Tracks are an easy way to log and measure requests matching arbitrary attributes. Rack::ack doesn't affect request processing.
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Note: Rack::Attack::Request is just a subclass of Rack::Request so that youĬan cleanly monkey patch helper methods onto the call ( req ) elsif throttled? ( req ) self. call ( env ) elsif blocklisted? ( req ) self. The algorithm is actually more concise in code: See Rack::Attack.call:ĭef call ( env ) req = Rack:: Attack:: Request.