On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 20:54 +0500, azeem ahmad wrote: > Hi all !! > I want to limit my clients to open a limited number of browsers(say > 5) at a given time.I am using a squid-205.STABLE1-2 proxy on red hat 9 box > with iptables, clients are Windows XP boxes mostly. > is it possible to limit the no. of requests/browsers from a client at > a given time > plz help me out.
Detecting the number of open browsers is not possible at the HTTP protocol level. What you might do is installing some service on the client systems, then write a squid redirector which queried that service (with something similar to the IDENT protocol) and decided what to do. What you _can_ do in your setup is (with certain limitations) limit the amount of bandwidth that each client gets. See class 2 and class 3 delay pools at http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-19.html#ss19.8 Kinkie
