id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc uname nginx_version 68 Include larger speed units for HttpLimitReqModule incognito2.myopenid.com somebody "I have a huge problem on my site with site scrapers, spam and spider bots. While having per second and per minute request limits helps mitigate a DDOS it doesn't help with scrapers & spiders. Most of these bots fetch pages at a similar rate to regular users ie. 2-3 per minute. The difference between these bots and users is the consistency over time;they can fetch hundreds or thousands or pages a day. I can't use iptables either because they usually use one connection and sometimes users with real browsers establish more connections than these robots. My request is to increase the allowable measured speed unit in the limit_req_zone directive to something larger than per minute; ie per hour, per day." enhancement new major nginx-module 1.0.x not applicable nginx 1.0.10