Are a page's images calculated as requests in Dynamic IP Restrictions?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8849628

  •  16-04-2021
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Question

Our site has performance issues, and spambots make it worse, so we decided to configure Dynamic IP Restrictions to allow only 5 concurrent requests (per one request per IP). My concern is that a single page may do many concurrent requests as it contains many images (we have like 20 images per one page), so will these be blocked? Are images calculated as request in Dynamic IP Restrictions?

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Solution

I found it, yes it's considered as request.

OTHER TIPS

We had to switch on Dynamic IP Restrictions after a brute force attack on our website. We started with the default numbers.

After performing a 'hard' refresh (CTRL+F5) in my browser, our homepage was half covered in broken images! A request for a single ASPX can trigger thirty image requests and several CSS/JS file requests too. All happening within a few milliseconds, all from the same IP.

Your settings need to allow for this. Sadly this means the hackers get more of a chance too.

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