Re: OT: limit number of connections from browser to my server?

From	jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: OT: limit number of connections from browser to my server?
Date	2016-05-17 10:58 +0200
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On 05/16/2016 09:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-05-16, jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com> wrote:
>
>> Have you considered upgrading the device with a recent CPU ? Or is it
>> completely out of the picture ?
>
> Not an option.  We have to continue to support devices that are in the
> field.  The newer models that are coming out now run at 133MHz instead
> of 44MHz, and page load times for https still aren't much better.
>
>> That being said, your first idea seems also a good lead, have your
>> server refuse more than one connection.
>
> Just got to figure out how to try it out without wasting a lot of time
> reverse-engineering the web server.  Hence a Python prototype. :)
>

I don't have time to read the whole thread but if I got it right, the 
main CPU consuming part is the crypto.
Why not drop the https part an support only http ?

Is is a device that needs to be accessed in untrusted networks ? Sorry 
for asking the obvious :o)

jm

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Re: OT: limit number of connections from browser to my server? jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2016-05-17 10:58 +0200

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