Rate limiting

This article is about computer networks. For the rate-limiting step in chemical kinetics, see Rate-determining step.

In computer networks, rate limiting is used to control the rate of requests sent or received by a network interface controller. It can be used to prevent DoS attacks[1] and limit web scraping.[2]

Research indicates flooding rates for one zombie machine are in excess of 20 HTTP GET requests per second,[3] legitimate rates much less.

Rate limiting should be used along with throttling pattern to minimize the number of throttling errors. [4]

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  3. ^ Jinghe Jin; Nazarov Nodir; Chaetae Im; Seung Yeob Nam (7 November 2014). "Mitigating HTTP GET Flooding Attacks through Modified NetFPGA Reference Router". p. 1. Archived from the original on Mar 6, 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2021 – via ResearchGate.
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