IPC::Shareable and IPC::ShareLite looks like a possibility.

An example of what I meant in the first post is as follows. Take two users. Both of whom click on a link that gets XML data from Amazon.com at the exact same time. What happens when it goes to get the data? The script will make two calls to the Amazon servers at the same time which is more than the (1) request per second. This is what I am trying to prevent and why I was going to try the database route. I may be wrong though. Would the system actually do the above and run the same script within one second of each other? Or would there be enough time (1 second) between executions that I do not even need to worry about 2 or more requests occurring at the same time?

In reply to Re: How do I prevent more than one request (to some URL) per second with CGI? by Balandar
in thread How do I prevent more than one request (to some URL) per second with CGI? by Balandar

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