Rate limit using iptables http://thelowedown.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/iptables-how-to-use-the-limits-module/ seems to be the simplest solution for an upper limit of requests/time.
Practically, you want the same as an administrator, who wants to protect his web server against a DoS attack by means of a flood of incoming http-requests. So you might also google for "apache request limit" or similar. -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Handling-client-side-request-floods-tp4666726p4666736.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
