Issue #171

server limit the number of webUI clients that can attach.

This will probably always be "0" or "unlimited", but allows ops to set a max limit for WebUI clients. (realistically, probably 3 is more than enough)

@crankycoder r?
No, no. I was merely saying that "limted" isn't a word.


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:31 PM, JR Conlin <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In config-sample.ini:
>
> > @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ ws_hostname = localhost:8080
> >  # for the UI, specify what protocol to use for websockets
> >  # (ws for plaintext; wss for TLS)
> >  #ws_proto=wss
> > +# Limit the number of webui connections (0 == system limted)
>
> Well, the box can only handle so many connections. so "unlimited" is never
> going to apply. Various platforms have various limits on the max number of
> sockets they can handle. Unless someone is being malicious, I don't expect
> them to open more than 2 or 3 at a time (thus "system limited"). If someone
> decides to be malicious, ops can set this flag to something like 3 and
> limit the number of WebUI connections to 3 per device.
>
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