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▼ | 2 | Dispatchers

2.1 | General
2.2 | Mapping URLs to Paths
2.3 | Sequencing
2.4 | Timeouts
2.5 | Lifting Procedures
2.6 | Filtering Requests
2.7 | Procedure Invocation upon Request
2.8 | Logging
2.9 | Password Protection
2.10 | Virtual Hosts
2.11 | Serving Files
2.12 | Serving Servlets
2.13 | Statistics
2.14 | Limiting Requests

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#### 2.14`` Limiting Requests

(require web-server/dispatchers/limit)

The web-server/dispatchers/limit module provides a wrapper dispatcher that limits how many requests are serviced at once.

(make limit inner [#:over-limit over-limit]) → dispatcher/c
limit : number?
inner : dispatcher/c
over-limit : (symbols 'block 'kill-new 'kill-old) = 'block

Returns a dispatcher that defers to inner for work, but will forward a maximum of limit requests concurrently.

If there are no additional spaces inside the limit and a new request is received, the over-limit option determines what is done. The default ('block) causes the new request to block until an old request is finished being handled. If over-limit is 'kill-new, then the new request handler is killed – a form of load-shedding. If over-limit is 'kill-old, then the oldest request handler is killed – prioritizing new connections over old. (This setting is a little dangerous because requests might never finish if there is constant load.)

Consider this example:

#lang scheme
(require web-server/web-server
web-server/http
web-server/http/response
(prefix-in limit: web-server/dispatchers/limit)
(prefix-in filter: web-server/dispatchers/dispatch-filter)
(prefix-in sequencer: web-server/dispatchers/dispatch-sequencer))
(serve #:dispatch
(sequencer:make
(filter:make
#rx"/limited"
(limit:make
5
(lambda (conn req)
(output-response/method
conn
(make-response/full
200 #"Okay"
(current-seconds) TEXT/HTML-MIME-TYPE
empty
(list (string->bytes/utf-8
(format "hello world ~a"
(sort (build-list 100000 (λ x (random 1000)))
<)))))
(request-method req)))
#:over-limit 'block))
(lambda (conn req)
(output-response/method
conn
(make-response/full 200 #"Okay"
(current-seconds) TEXT/HTML-MIME-TYPE
empty
(list #"<html><body>Unlimited</body></html>"))
(request-method req))))
#:port 8080)
(do-not-return)

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