XFF vs Limiter

XFF

A Golang Middleware to handle X-Forwarded-For Header (by sebest)

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Limiter

Dead simple rate limit middleware for Go. (by ulule)

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XFF		Limiter
	Project
-	Mentions	2
98	Stars	1,948
-	Growth	2.3%
0.0	Activity	5.2
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	8 months ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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XFF

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Limiter

Posts with mentions or reviews of Limiter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-02.

Goralim – A rate limiting package for Go to handle distributed workloads
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2024

Fun weekend project but definitely not production-ready (no tests, no error handling, etc.). If readers are looking for something production-ready to use, consider https://github.com/go-redis/redis_rate (which implements GCRA/leaky bucket), or https://github.com/ulule/limiter (which uses a much simpler algorithm, but has good middleware).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing XFF and Limiter you can also consider the following projects:

easy-middleware - easy-middleware is a lightweight json middleware stack for Go >= 1.7.

Tollbooth - Simple middleware to rate-limit HTTP requests.

formjson - Go net/http handler to transparently manage posted JSON

Beego - beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.

CORS - Go net/http configurable handler to handle CORS requests

Iris - The fastest HTTP/2 Go Web Framework. New, modern and easy to learn. Fast development with Code you control. Unbeatable cost-performance ratio :rocket:

samb - Go HTTP route management, with a structured API.

GoSwagger - Swagger 2.0 implementation for go

REST Layer - REST Layer, Go (golang) REST API framework

Echo - High performance, minimalist Go web framework