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December 15, 2004
Slashdot's Jamie on RSS Throttling
Jamie McCarthy writes very specifically about how to implement Slashdot's approach to throttling aggressive little buggers trying to request-bomb your site, intentionally or not. I'm not sure that on lower-trafficked sites this strategy works. The problem with RSS over-requesting is often that many thousands of aggregators might request a page 24 times a day when they need it once or twice. That's a hard thing to throttle, as I'm discovering.
Jamie's post is dissected by Dan Sandler.
Posted by Glennf at December 15, 2004 04:37 PM