Add throttling middleware

[Adrian Holovaty]

It'd be nice to have a middleware that would throttle requests from the same IP address, to prevent things like brute-force password attacks and DOS attacks. Or just rudeness on the part of search-engine spiders. This middleware would have to keep track of each request and which IP address it came from. Probably HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR, too, if that's available.

[Ian@…]

there are several of these already available for apache2. what could a middleware version in django do what those couldn't ?

[Simon G. <dev@…>]

Marked as wontfix, since this is better handled at the webserver level using something like mod_throttle, unless anyone has other situations when this is necessary?

[elsigh]

In the world of App Engine this would be handy to prevent too much data submission from a single IP perhaps? i.e. when running django in a non-apache environment.

[Chris Beaven]

Closing again - no need to bloat Django just for app engine's sake. Not saying that this might not be useful, it just doesn't need to be in core Django

Take it to django-dev if you want to discuss more.