Golim

Rate-limited proxy server in Go. This can be used in two ways

1. When you are hosting a web server. This can be used to protect your web server from huge traffic or DDOS attacks.
2. When you are using someone's web server. This can be used to make sure you don't cross the free API limit and get billed for more $$.

Usage

Pull from DockerHub

The easiest way to use this is via the docker hub image. To start running golim on port 8080:

docker run --rm -p 8080:80 shubham1172/golim:latest -web-server-addr=http://192.168.0.12:8000

Build from source

Make sure to edit the environment variables in the docker-compose.yml file.

git clone https://github.com/shubham1172/golim
cd golim
docker-compose up

Configuration

Golim can be configured via the command line arguments or the environment variables. If both are specified, the command line arguments takes precedence.

Command Line Argument	Environment Variable	Description
-web-server-addr	GOLIM_WEB_SERVER_ADDR	Address of the web server.
-rate-limiter-burst	GOLIM_RATE_LIMITER_BURST	Number of requests that can be made in a given time window.
-rate-limiter-window-seconds	GOLIM_RATE_LIMITER_WINDOW_SECONDS	Time window in seconds for which the burst is allowed.