Raise rate limits further for media-heavy sites
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Generous thresholds that accommodate sites with many images/assets
while still catching obvious automated floods:
- Request rate: tarpit at 300 req/s, block at 500 req/s
- Connection rate: 500/10s
- Concurrent connections: 500
- Error rate: 100/30s

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-03-31 14:12:24 -07:00
parent 5390ebb8a6
commit 13a5be636e

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@@ -30,20 +30,20 @@ frontend web
acl is_whitelisted var(txn.real_ip),map_ip(/etc/haproxy/trusted_ips.map,0) -m int gt 0
# --- Rate limit rules (applied in order, first match wins) ---
# Thresholds sized for real-world web traffic: a heavy page load can
# generate 30-50 requests and multiple rapid page navigations can burst
# well above 100 req/10s legitimately.
# Thresholds are generous to accommodate media-heavy sites where a
# single page can load 100+ images/assets. These only trigger on
# obvious automated abuse, not real users.
#
# Hard block: >2000 req/10s per IP (200 req/s — only real floods)
http-request deny deny_status 429 if { sc_http_req_rate(0) gt 2000 } !is_local !is_trusted_ip !is_whitelisted !is_health_check
# Tarpit: >1000 req/10s per IP (100 req/s — sustained aggressive scraping)
http-request tarpit deny_status 429 if { sc_http_req_rate(0) gt 1000 } !is_local !is_trusted_ip !is_whitelisted !is_health_check
# Connection rate limit: >300 new connections per 10s per IP
http-request deny deny_status 429 if { sc_conn_rate(0) gt 300 } !is_local !is_trusted_ip !is_whitelisted !is_health_check
# Concurrent connection limit: >200 simultaneous connections per IP
http-request deny deny_status 429 if { sc_conn_cur(0) gt 200 } !is_local !is_trusted_ip !is_whitelisted !is_health_check
# High error rate: >50 errors in 30s (scanner/fuzzer behavior)
http-request tarpit deny_status 403 if { sc_http_err_rate(0) gt 50 } !is_local !is_trusted_ip !is_whitelisted !is_health_check
# Hard block: >5000 req/10s per IP (500 req/s — sustained flood)
http-request deny deny_status 429 if { sc_http_req_rate(0) gt 5000 } !is_local !is_trusted_ip !is_whitelisted !is_health_check
# Tarpit: >3000 req/10s per IP (300 req/s — aggressive bot/scraper)
http-request tarpit deny_status 429 if { sc_http_req_rate(0) gt 3000 } !is_local !is_trusted_ip !is_whitelisted !is_health_check
# Connection rate limit: >500 new connections per 10s per IP
http-request deny deny_status 429 if { sc_conn_rate(0) gt 500 } !is_local !is_trusted_ip !is_whitelisted !is_health_check
# Concurrent connection limit: >500 simultaneous connections per IP
http-request deny deny_status 429 if { sc_conn_cur(0) gt 500 } !is_local !is_trusted_ip !is_whitelisted !is_health_check
# High error rate: >100 errors in 30s (scanner/fuzzer behavior)
http-request tarpit deny_status 403 if { sc_http_err_rate(0) gt 100 } !is_local !is_trusted_ip !is_whitelisted !is_health_check
# IP blocking using map file (manual blocks only)
# Map file format: /etc/haproxy/blocked_ips.map contains "<ip_or_cidr> 1" per line