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Old 07-23-2004, 08:15 AM  
TheSaint
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bandwidth throttle?

I got a user who downloaded 30 FUCKING GIG last night (thats considerably more that I have).

It looks like he is using some sort of download manager that opens up 10 connections at once. Most are partial downloads that show up in the apache log like:

HTTP/1.1" 206 6341338

I am getting more of these clowns everyday. I can't block in htaccess, as they are using smart download managers pretending to be mozilla or I.E.

Anybody tackled this? There are a couple of apache modules like mod_throttle or mod_bandwidth, but I am not sure they work with apache 2.0 or are any good.

I'd like to limit users to something reasonable, anybody tried this?
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