Rate Limiting

Another feature of this package is the ability to limit the number of transformations that the image transformation route should process per path and IP address within a given time frame.

The rate limit will come into effect for new transformation requests only, and will not affect previously cached images.

By default, rate limiting is disabled for the local and testing app environements to not distract you when developing your app. You can configure the rate limit settings in the image-transform-url.php configuration file.

php

/*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Rate Limit
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Below you may configure the rate limit which is applied for each image
    | new transformation by the path and IP address. It is recommended to
    | set this to a low value, e.g. 2 requests per minute, to prevent
    | abuse.
    */

    'rate_limit' => [
        'enabled' => env('IMAGE_TRANSFORM_RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED', true),
        'disabled_for_environments' => [
            'local',
            'testing',
        ],
        'max_attempts' => env('IMAGE_TRANSFORM_RATE_LIMIT_MAX_REQUESTS', 2),
        'decay_seconds' => env('IMAGE_TRANSFORM_RATE_LIMIT_DECAY_SECONDS', 60),
    ],

Rate Limiting ​

Rate Limiting