MaxClients inside Location?

[John ORourke]

Hi there,

I couldn't find the answer to this in various user docs/forums/etc, 
apologies if it's a simple thing.

I have a particularly busy URI on a particular VirtualHost and I'd like 
to limit how many clients can request that URL at a time.  I've been 
looking for things like being able to use MaxClients inside a <Location>.

I don't know where in the server/request life cycle the connection gets 
handed off to a child process, but I guess it'll be before the request 
is read in - if so we're probably not going to be able to do this.  The 
requests are large POST requests, so we'd need to read the request 
headers before allocating a child process, we can't just rewrite the 
request.

My 'plan B' is to run another httpd on a different port to handle these 
requests - I have control of the clients so can change the URI.  That's 
actually sounding like a much simpler solution now!

thanks
John