Chrome Feature Helps Shield Websites From DDoS Attacks

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 18, 2011 @05:45AM from the anti-slashdotting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has an interesting idea on how to take the edge off denial of service attacks. The latest developer builds of Chrome 12 have an option called 'http throttling,' which will simply deny a user access to a website once the browser has received error messages from the URL. Chrome will react with a 'back-off interval' that will increase the time between requests to the website. If there are enough Chrome requests flooding a website under attack, this could give webmasters some room to recover from a nasty DDoS attack."

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As a Haxx0r, this worries me by gazbo · 2011-04-18 05:52 · Score: 4, Funny

When I launch DDoS attacks, I always VNC into my 300,000 zombies, load Chrome, and type the target's address into the URL bar of each one. This new feature will cripple me :(((((((
On an unrelated note, I must remember to buy a replacement for my worn-out F5 key.
1. Re:As a Haxx0r, this worries me by nedlohs · 2011-04-18 06:24 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  But how will I view the help?
So, when someone nuclear bombs a website... by webbiedave · 2011-04-18 05:58 · Score: 4, Funny

... Chrome promises to throw less stones?