[Feature request] Automatic flood protection

[Hello71]

Instead of queuing commands to be sent, monitor conn.bufferSize and automatically enable flood protection based on that. (Possibly using conn.pause() and conn.resume() instead of queuing commands.)

See node/.../doc/api/net.markdown

[martynsmith]

Hmmm, that sounds interesting.

Do you have time to throw together a patch that demonstrates this?

Otherwise feel free to leave this open, and I'll have an investigation of it when I get time :-)

[Hello71]

Well, I'm not really sure if it's a good idea in the first place. Flood protection seems to be more for preventing server kicks; bufferSize is more for not saturating the bandwidth of the user.

[martynsmith]

Okay, and it seems to me that if you're trying to limit bandwidth, that's really outside the scope of this module.

Do you want to close this issue then?