Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for processing a request. A specific embodiment of the method includes: receiving a request; determining a type of the request or an object name indicated by the request; acquiring, after determining that a current time is after a validity deadline of locally stored first request control information, the number of control servers in a preset control server set; determining, from the control server set, a target control server based on the acquired number and any one of: the type of the request, the object name indicated by the request; and forwarding the request to the target control server.