Delay requests made by the markdown formwidget until the user stops typing momentarily

[multiwebinc]

• OctoberCMS Build: 1.0.471

Description:

With the current markdown editor in split mode, a request is sent to the server for every single keystroke. This doesn't play well with DDoS prevention mechanisms, such as Apache's mod_evasive, which quickly causes a 403 error after just a few keystrokes. Would it be possible to use a client-side markdown parser, or at the very least throttle the number of requests sent to the server to something more sensible?

[LukeTowers]

@multiwebinc it should be possible to throttle the requests after a given delay of no keystrokes, if that hasn't already been implemented (I seem to remember something similar being implemented, but I can't remember if it was specifically for the markdown widget or something like the search field).

[daftspunk]

if that hasn't already been implemented

The logic only stops polling when an active request is being made, so if you have a low latency server it could get pinged quite often

This doesn't play well with DDoS prevention mechanisms

This issue has been addressed in the next version of October CMS. Stay tuned for the announcement!

Thanks