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Chrome Feature Helps Shield Websites From DDoS Attacks

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Who DDoSes with a browser? by gman003 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since dedicated DDoS programs like LOIC are readily available, nobody performs actual DDoS attacks with a browser. Hell, ping floods are more effective than a bunch of people pressing refresh too often.

    Now, this might reduce the Slashdot Effect, but not a DDoS.

  2. Re:Well... by icebike · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At best it might help with slashdotted sites.

    It does nothing for those sites under a true DOS attack, other than denying legitimate requests to that the DOS attack can continue unimpeded without those pesky legitimate requests sneaking through.

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  3. This is similar to what I do. by blair1q · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have an interesting way to stop muggers. I just don't mug anyone.

    Wait...