On 02/26/2009 04:04 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > I was talking about request number quotas (e.g., "you can make n > requests in m minutes"). > > Regarding byte quotes -- see subsequent message -- I disagree that you > need eCAP :) eCAP is one way of doing byte- and/or count- quotas, but there are, of course, other approaches as well.
I am still not very excited about the slow bloat of redirectors&Co API towards duplication of *CAP functionality, but perhaps it is inevitable. If it is, a clean unified interface among all such one-line external helpers would make that duplication a lot less painful. Cheers, Alex. > On 27/02/2009, at 10:00 AM, Kinkie wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Mark Nottingham >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Isn't requests really just an external acl helper? >> >> Not really.. an external ACL helper would need to do real-time parsing >> of the logs to really know how much each client downloaded, as AFAIK >> both request and reply acl's are evaluated BEFORE the actual transfer >> takes place. >> Only eCAP probably has the right hooks. >> >> -- >> /kinkie > > -- > Mark Nottingham [email protected] >
