limit-req and greedy UAs

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 01:23:43 UTC 2016


Has anyone considered the problem of legitimate UAs which request a
series of files which don't necessarily exist when they access your
site?  Requests for files like robots.txt, sitemap.xml,
crossdomain.xml, apple-touch-icon.png, etc could quickly cause the UA
to exceed the limit-req burst value.  What is the right way to deal
with this?

- Grant



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