Thanks for the pointer, Johannes fixed that in this commit
<https://github.com/akka/akka/commit/7d3953d13d8c57ff7958202f3e573d9a2b770b34>
right
away (without telling anyone ;-) ).

Regards,

Roland

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Chris Baxter <cbax...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The bindAndHandle methods on the Http extension for a while now have
> offered this warning:
>
> Note that there is no backpressure being applied to the connections Source,
>> i.e. all connections are being accepted at maximum rate, which, depending
>> on the applications, might present a DoS risk!
>
>
> I looked at the Source a little, and I don't know if this is recent or
> not, but I see a mapAsyncUnordered(settings.maxConnections) in there.  Does
> this code negate the need for that warning now as it serves to limit the
> numbed of requests that flow downstream into the handling code?  Does one
> still need to apply explicit handling to the connections Source (via
> something like buffer with a strategy to dropNew) to really avoid a DoS
> risk?
>
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