That's not a bad idea, I will look into.

Thanks again for the help.


Peter Crowther wrote:
>
>> From: adamle [mailto:adam@(protected)]
>> I thought of maybe putting a filter on the certain url
>> pattern that I want,
>> but instead of turning back the user, I could put his thread
>> to sleep for
>> aset amount of time and have him try again. Hopefully by
>> then some of the
>> earlier threads will have finished and he can be let through.
>>
>> Do you some inherent problem with this?
>
> I'd always be cautious about consuming any resource for an extended
> period - in this case a thread. An attacker could starve Tomcat of
> threads by flooding the system with requests for the slow-processing
> pages. You probably wouldn't get a crash; you *would* get very slow
> service elsewhere.
>
> Is there no way you can hand back a 'try later' response, even using
> something tacky like a refresh header?
>
>    - Peter
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