At one point (with one app) we checked the user agent on incoming requests and would reset the session timeout to a few seconds on any user agent identified as a bot.
Steve 'Cutter' Blades Adobe Community Professional Adobe Certified Expert Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer ____________ http://cutterscrossing.com Co-Author "Learning Ext JS 3.2" Packt Publishing 2010 https://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js-3-2-for-building-dynamic-desktop-style-user-interfaces/book "The best way to predict the future is to help create it" On 6/20/2013 7:38 PM, Richard Steele wrote: > We're caching parts of some key pages, but unfortunately some of the data has > to be live. When the bots start hitting us, our CF8 server can't keep up and > we get long running threads. > > Is there an easy way to throttle url page requests? Perhaps throw up a note > say that the server is busy, please retry in a bit. Thanks! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356032 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
