Remove page-rate limiter

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 34 deletions

diff --git a/includes/functions/functions.php b/includes/functions/functions.php
index 1eaba71ee0..d51db78928 100644
--- a/includes/functions/functions.php
+++ b/includes/functions/functions.php
@@ -2858,35 +2858,6 @@ function add_descendancy(&$list, $pid, $parents=false, $generations=-1) {
 }
 
 /**
- * check if the page view rate for a session has been exeeded.
- */
-function CheckPageViews() {
-	global $SEARCH_SPIDER, $MAX_VIEWS, $MAX_VIEW_TIME;
-
-	if ($MAX_VIEW_TIME == 0 || $MAX_VIEWS == 0 || !empty($SEARCH_SPIDER))
-		return;
-
-	// The media firewall should not be throttled
-	if (WT_SCRIPT_NAME=='mediafirewall.php')
-		return;
-
-	if (!empty($_SESSION["pageviews"]["time"]) && !empty($_SESSION["pageviews"]["number"])) {
-		$_SESSION["pageviews"]["number"] ++;
-		if ($_SESSION["pageviews"]["number"] < $MAX_VIEWS)
-			return;
-		$sleepTime = $MAX_VIEW_TIME - time() + $_SESSION["pageviews"]["time"];
-		if ($sleepTime > 0) {
-			// The configured page view rate has been exceeded
-			// - Log a message and then sleep to slow things down
-			$text = "Permitted page view rate of {$MAX_VIEWS} per {$MAX_VIEW_TIME} seconds exceeded.";
-			AddToLog($text, 'auth');
-			sleep($sleepTime);
-		}
-	}
-	$_SESSION["pageviews"] = array("time"=>time(), "number"=>1);
-}
-
-/**
  * get the next available xref
  * calculates the next available XREF id for the given type of record
  * @param string $type	the type of record, defaults to 'INDI'
diff --git a/includes/session.php b/includes/session.php
index 1d9da62d20..0266d35d45 100644
--- a/includes/session.php
+++ b/includes/session.php
@@ -246,8 +246,6 @@ $ALLOW_CHANGE_GEDCOM            =get_site_setting('ALLOW_CHANGE_GEDCOM');
 $WT_SESSION_SAVE_PATH           =get_site_setting('SESSION_SAVE_PATH');
 $WT_SESSION_TIME                =get_site_setting('SESSION_TIME');
 $SERVER_URL                     =get_site_setting('SERVER_URL');
-$MAX_VIEWS                      =get_site_setting('MAX_VIEWS');
-$MAX_VIEW_TIME                  =get_site_setting('MAX_VIEW_TIME');
 
 //-- allow user to cancel
 ignore_user_abort(false);
@@ -406,9 +404,6 @@ if (WT_USER_ID && safe_GET_bool('logout')) {
 	exit;
 }
 
-// Check for page views exceeding the limit
-CheckPageViews();
-
 $show_context_help = '';
 if (!empty($_REQUEST['show_context_help'])) $show_context_help = $_REQUEST['show_context_help'];
 if (!isset($_SESSION['show_context_help'])) $_SESSION['show_context_help'] = $SHOW_CONTEXT_HELP;