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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/throttling.md b/docs/api-guide/throttling.md index b7c320f0..d223f9b3 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/throttling.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/throttling.md @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ The default throttling policy may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_THROTTLE_C 'DEFAULT_THROTTLE_RATES': { 'anon': '100/day', 'user': '1000/day' - } + } } The rate descriptions used in `DEFAULT_THROTTLE_RATES` may include `second`, `minute`, `hour` or `day` as the throttle period. @@ -66,6 +66,16 @@ Or, if you're using the `@api_view` decorator with function based views. } return Response(content) +## How clients are identified + +The `X-Forwarded-For` and `Remote-Addr` HTTP headers are used to uniquely identify client IP addresses for throttling. If the `X-Forwarded-For` header is present then it will be used, otherwise the value of the `Remote-Addr` header will be used. + +If you need to strictly identify unique client IP addresses, you'll need to first configure the number of application proxies that the API runs behind by setting the `NUM_PROXIES` setting. This setting should be an integer of zero or more. If set to non-zero then the client IP will be identified as being the last IP address in the `X-Forwarded-For` header, once any application proxy IP addresses have first been excluded. If set to zero, then the `Remote-Addr` header will always be used as the identifying IP address. + +It is important to understand that if you configure the `NUM_PROXIES` setting, then all clients behind a unique [NAT'd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation) gateway will be treated as a single client. + +Further context on how the `X-Forwarded-For` header works, and identifing a remote client IP can be [found here][identifing-clients]. + ## Setting up the cache The throttle classes provided by REST framework use Django's cache backend. You should make sure that you've set appropriate [cache settings][cache-setting]. The default value of `LocMemCache` backend should be okay for simple setups. See Django's [cache documentation][cache-docs] for more details. @@ -178,5 +188,6 @@ The following is an example of a rate throttle, that will randomly throttle 1 in [cite]: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/error-codes-responses [permissions]: permissions.md +[identifing-clients]: http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=AppSuite:Grizzly#Multiple_Proxies_in_front_of_the_cluster [cache-setting]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#caches [cache-docs]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/cache/#setting-up-the-cache |