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Old 10-23-2008
A randomized defence of virus throttling

HPL-2008-135 A randomized defence of virus throttling - Mowbray, Miranda; Ananthanarayanan, Ganesh; Joseph, Anthony
Keyword(s): virus throttling, security
Abstract: This paper gives a simple example of a defence against a worm attack which is a randomized combination of pure strategies, and which is superior to all of the pure strategies that it combines. Although it was developed to defend against an attack on virus throttling in a specific network device, bot ...
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HTTP_THROTTLE(3)							 1							  HTTP_THROTTLE(3)

http_throttle - HTTP throttling

SYNOPSIS
void http_throttle (float $sec, [int $bytes = 40960]) DESCRIPTION
Sets the throttle delay and send buffer size. Note This function should be used in conjunction with http_send_data(3), http_send_file(3) and http_send_stream(3). Note Provides a basic throttling mechanism, which will yield the current process or thread until the entity has been completely sent. Note This may not work as expected with the following SAPI(s): FastCGI. PARAMETERS
o $sec - seconds to sleep after each chunk sent o $bytes - the chunk size in bytes EXAMPLES
Example #1 A http_throttle(3) example Send file with approximately 20 kbyte/s. <?php // ~ 20 kbyte/s # http_throttle(1, 20000); # http_throttle(0.5, 10000); http_throttle(0.1, 2000); http_send_file('document.pdf'); ?> SEE ALSO
http_send_data(3), http_send_file(3), http_send_stream(3), the HttpResponse class if you are using PHP 5.1.0 and above. PHP Documentation Group HTTP_THROTTLE(3)