Limiting .htaccess failure attempts

2025-03-29

In helping people make their site better, I came across a web-based script that creates .htaccess & .htpasswd files. As part of making it easier for people not familiar with related Server-side applications (plus a thread I read at WHT), it dawned on me that there must be a way to limit the number of failed attempts.

In followng the K.I.S.S. principle, I had thought (hoped) it would somewhere within:

< Limit GET POST >
require
< /Limit >

(spacing is for VB)

but I cannot seem to find any documentation on it. Spent time browsing and although HARD_SERVER_LIMIT & kill_conditions (under Apache API Contstants) sound promising, I am not familiar enough to understand their usage.

Can anyone help shed some light on this?

[Edited by Website Rob on 03-10-2001 at 04:02 AM]