> From: adamle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I thought of maybe putting a filter on the certain url > pattern that I want, > but instead of turning back the user, I could put his thread > to sleep for > aset amount of time and have him try again. Hopefully by > then some of the > earlier threads will have finished and he can be let through. > > Do you some inherent problem with this?
I'd always be cautious about consuming any resource for an extended period - in this case a thread. An attacker could starve Tomcat of threads by flooding the system with requests for the slow-processing pages. You probably wouldn't get a crash; you *would* get very slow service elsewhere. Is there no way you can hand back a 'try later' response, even using something tacky like a refresh header? - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]