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Throttle Plugin

FEAST ships with an optional plugin for throttling requests from the same IP. This plugin is not enabled by default, but can be easily configured by adding a few lines to your configs/config.php file.

To enable, simply add 'plugin.throttle' => \Plugins\Throttle::class, to the appropriate environment.

The folder storage/throttle MUST be writeable by the web server.

The Throttle plugin has the following options.

1. throttle.maxrequests - defaults to 200
2. throttle.maxrequesttime - defaults to 20.
3. error.throttle.url - defaults to /error/rate-limit These options means that if a user exceeds 200 requests in a 20 second window, they should be forwarded to /error/rate-limit. Note that plugins will all still run on the rate-limit url, as it will not be throttled.