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By dynv on
I'm considering adding the search function to my site but I'm worried about user abusing it thus abusing CPU, is there some protection for this ? I could just put a link to the search page on my primary links adding captcha but the input field with search button (that is usually on the top right) is quite intuitive. Perhaps there's a module that give a number of regular searches before sending queries to such a page (search + captcha) ?
Please let me know if I posted in the wrong forum, the only forum in Support section about module was for development and this doesn't seem pertinent to it ; perhaps there's a forum to help discover modules.
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So I browsed the modules for something else and stumbled upon something that would help with this in the section "Core - optional" so I enabled it, configured it ( /admin/settings/throttle ), then went back to the module page to check box Throttle ( next to Enable ) for Search ( also in Core - optional ).
Drupal 6 core is pretty good !