[interchange-docs] RobotLimit and Temporary Sessions
Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
racke at linuxia.de
Sat Sep 6 08:39:13 UTC 2008
Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke at linuxia.de):
>> Hello,
>>
>> I noticed an interesting problem while researching an issue reported by
>> Peter with lockout subs.
>>
>> The RobotLimit stuff doesn't appear to apply to temporary sessions.
>> While this is OK for well-behaved robots, it can easily be exploited
>> by bad robots pretending with their UserAgent string to be one of
>> the good guys (or just matching by chance).
>>
>> So my suggestion is to:
>>
>> * check count_ip for temporary sessions as well
>> * document this surprising "feature"
>
> The worry about robots has always been session proliferatio and the
> corresponding drag on I/O.
>
> I don't think anyone has ever thought that IC had a strong defense
> against overuntilization, but a couple of rudimentary features that
> stopped the stupidest of the poorly-mannered robots would be reasonable.
>
*bump*
That's fair enough, but should be still documented.
Regards
Racke
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