Editing Web traffic (section)

===Limiting access===

It is sometimes important to protect some parts of a site by password, allowing only authorized people to visit particular sections or pages.

Some site administrators have chosen to block their page to specific traffic, such as by geographic location. The [[political campaign|re-election campaign]] site for [[United States|U.S.]] [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] ([http://www.georgewbush.com GeorgeWBush.com]) was blocked to all [[internet]] users outside of the U.S. on 25 October 2004 after a reported attack on the site.<ref>{{cite news
 | url = http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/26/bush_campaign_web_site_rejects_nonus_visitors.html
 | title = Bush Campaign Web Site Rejects Non-US Visitors
 | first = Rich
 | last = Miller
 | date = 2004-10-26
 | access-date = 2004-10-28
 | archive-date = 2011-02-19
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110219131545/http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/26/bush_campaign_web_site_rejects_nonus_visitors.html
 | url-status = live
 }}</ref>

It is also possible to limit access to a web server both based on the number of connections and the bandwidth expended by each connection.