Rate Limiting and its bypassing
Introduction
Whenever you are browsing a website and sending repeated requests within a short span of time, the website may stop responding or ask you to fill a captcha in order to move forward. This is known as “Rate Limiting” . It means the website is limiting the rate of the requests sent by you or your browser. This can be done for a lot of things such as protecting the application resources, and giving users a good response time on the website. Let us discuss further.
What is rate limiting?
“Rate limiting” is a method that can help to limit the consecutive request on the server. If server admin implemented the rate limiting on server, the attacker cannot misused server easily like attacker might be trying to do the DOS on the server, since a large number of consecutive requests in a short span of time is no accepted on the server, it will protect is from brute forcing and from the DOS as well.
