Bug#647863: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-ratelimit-perl -- unknown
Package: wnpp
Owner: Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk>,
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-perl@lists.debian.org
* Package name : libcgi-application-plugin-ratelimit-perl
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Sam Tregar <sam@plusthree.com>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-RateLimit/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : unknown
CGI::Application::Plugin::RateLimit provides protection against a user
calling a runmode too frequently. A typical use-case might be a contact form
that sends email. You'd like to allow your users to send you messages, but
thousands of messages from a single user would be a problem.
This module works by maintaining a database of hits to protected runmodes. It
then checks this database to determine if a new hit should be allowed based
on past activity by the user. The user's identity is, by default, tied to
login (via REMOTE_USER) or IP address (via REMOTE_IP) if login info is not
available. You may provide your own identity function via the
identity_callback() method.
To use this module you must create a table in your database with the
following schema (using MySQL-syntax, although other DBs may work as well
with minor alterations):
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