general/2161: Request "" or something similar.

[Andrew Daniel <an...@digispec.com>]

>Number:         2161
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       Request "<LimitConnect>" or something similar.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 30 22:00:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     andrew@digispec.com
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3b6
>Environment:
Apache 1.3b6 precompiled from apache.org, Win95OSR2, 64Megs RAM
>Description:
Would like to see a LimitConnect directive (or something similar)
that would limit the number of concurrent connections from one IP
or host. Would like to see it work inside a <Directory> directive.

Such as:
<directory c:/apache/htdocs/photographers/freephotos/>
LimitConnect 2
</directory>

This would limit the user to (2) concurrent connections in
that directory, this restricting them from downloading 
more than 2 binaries (Assuming that indexing is on... Etc.).

Also with that, the ability to give a custom error message
when limit is exceeded.

# TOO MANY CONCURRENT CONNECTIONS
ErrorDocument ??? /errormsg/???.htm

>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
N/A
>Audit-Trail:
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