"No more than 1 request/second" can be sorta tricky.

No more than 1 GET request? Do images on a page count?

By the way, if you write your application to send back a redirect URL (HTTP code 302, I believe?), you can "bypass" the limit -- because the request is coming from the users' browser.

It sounds like you're grabbing some info and processing before you spit it back out to the user. Have you thought about caching data so you don't have to do a request every time?

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

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