Producer flow control commented on by Ted Ross (Jun 26, 2008).

Comment:

Unfortunately, this mechanism creates a denial-of-service vulnerability as bad or worse than the one you are fixing.

By creating a queue, binding it to an exchange, and never consuming the messages on that queue, I can effectively shut down that exchange by causing all producers that send to that exchange to be blocked.

A less dramatic illustration of this affect is that all consumers bound to the same exchange will be throttled to the speed of the slowest consumer.

-Ted

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