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