[Catalyst] Rate limiting password attacks

[Carl Johnstone]

> Well, that would be every environment where Catalyst runs.  If you
> want to do something fancy, I'd suggest looking at lingerd, a C daemon
> written to take TCP connections handed off from mod_perl.  It would
> require some C-level hacking, but I expect you could alter it for this
> purpose.

Lingerd is only good for apache 1.3 though (or at least I've not come across 
a port of it). So you're talking serious hacking.

It would probably be easier to use perlbal to do this via a redirect to a 
more lightweight server.

Carl