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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Great idea, but by Anonymous Coward · 2011-04-18 05:51 · Score: 0, Interesting

when using Chrome for web development, having the browser throttle your refreshes get very annoying very quickly. Being able to whitelist certain domains, like localhost, would be great.
Re:Who DDoSes with a browser? by h4rr4r · 2011-04-18 05:54 · Score: 4, Interesting

Judging by the amount of sites slashdot still manages to take down I disagree. Lots of unintentional DDoS still happening these days.