[squid-users] slow down response to broken clients ?

[Amos Jeffries]

On 25/02/22 20:47, Dieter Bloms wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Sometimes a client tries to reach a destination that is blocked at the
> proxy. The proxy responds with a 403 and the client then immediately
> tries again and again, making hundreds of requests per second. Is it
> possible to add an artificial delay here so that the proxy answers
> the client later?
> Best combined with a rate limit, so that the delays only become active
> when a certain limit of 403 answers is exceeded?
> 
> 

Squid ships with a helper called ext_delayer_acl for handling this.
<http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/manuals/ext_delayer_acl.html>

Amos