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Yes, that feels simple enough, and would work for a small at home BBS.

It gets messy when you have a number of users and need to know why a specific user is sending you 150 requests per min for 3 hours: you'll insta ban that user, but still need to understand what happened. Did they get their login info leak and the whole internet is having a field day with it ? Is it an issue with your system and their browser is stuck in a weird loop ? Are you session management backend going bust and they're actually all different logged users ?

You'll only know if you have the IP, parts of the headers and some more debugging info, and activating the debug after the fact is often not good enough.




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