Throttling requests with RequestsThrottler

Networks need to have accounting in addition to authorization and authentication. Accounting ensures proper use of the resources, this means that everyone gets to use the services in a fair manner. Network throttling enables accounting in the web services. This is a simple recipe that offers a throttling service to the web requests.

Getting ready

We use requests_throttler Python module to throttle the web requests. First, install the module and configure our recipe using the following script:

$ sh 20_10_requests_throttling.sh#!/bin/bash##################################################### Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- 
Chapter - 11##################################################### Download and extract RequestsThrottlerwget https://pypi.python.org/packages/d5/db/fc7558a14efa163cd2d3e4515cdfbbfc2dacc1d2c4285b095104c58065c7/RequestsThrottler-0.1.0.tar.gztar -xvf RequestsThrottler-0.1.0.tar.gzcd RequestsThrottler-0.1.0# Copy...