Connection string format about rate-limit-mongo HOT 5 CLOSED

This worked for me in the end:

var apiLimiter = rateLimit({
    windowMs: 5 * 60 * 1000, // 5 minutes
    max: 3,
    headers: false,
    handler: function(req, res) {
        res.status("429").end();
    },
    store: new MongoStore({
        uri: process.env.RATE_LIMIT_MONGO_CONFIG_CONNECTION_STRING,
        collectionName: "expressRateRecords"
    })
});

where connection string is:

mongodb+srv://user-name:[email protected]/expressRateRecords

So basically, username, password and database defined in the connection string and only using the uri and collectionName config parameters.

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Hello.
There a lot of questions in this issue and I don't get them all ;)
I hope my answer about collection and collectionName options will be helpful - it describes how to provide connected instance of the collection.
I'm closing the issue, but if you have specific questions feel free to post.

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I'm not aware of that possible issue with Cloudflare and 429, 524 http statuses, sorry cannot help with that.

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@okv - it ended up being a problem with my code, so I deleted the comment related to the 524 error.

For reference, I was using:

    handler: function(req, res) {
        res.status("429");
    },

And I don't think the request was 'terminating' and cloudflare was returning a 524 error.

So I used the following code and it resolved the issue:

    handler: function(req, res) {
        res.status("429").end(); // <--- just added .end()  
    },

from rate-limit-mongo.

This worked for me in the end:

var apiLimiter = rateLimit({
    windowMs: 5 * 60 * 1000, // 5 minutes
    max: 3,
    headers: false,
    handler: function(req, res) {
        res.status("429").end();
    },
    store: new MongoStore({
        uri: process.env.RATE_LIMIT_MONGO_CONFIG_CONNECTION_STRING,
        collectionName: "expressRateRecords"
    })
});

where connection string is:

mongodb+srv://user-name:[email protected]/expressRateRecords

So basically, username, password and database defined in the connection string and only using the uri and collectionName config parameters.

@okv Consider adding a note in the documentation that "If uri includes username and password, then do not included user and password in the config object."

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