Hi all, While diagnosing an issue this evening with cdn.kde.org, I noticed that we are still getting an extremely large number of requests for the legacy OCS/GHNS providers.xml endpoint, which is supposed to only exist for compatibility with older applications.
Looking on LXR i've found that a substantial number of our applications are still using the old url in their most recent releases (see https://lxr.kde.org/search?_filestring=&_string=%2Focs%2Fproviders.xml) All new code should be using autoconfig.kde.org now, and all old code should be transitioning to using the new url. The legacy url is significantly more resource intensive for our servers to support and our ability to scale this endpoint is substantially more limited when compared with the new endpoint so it is important that this is moved over (to the extent Enterprise/Long term LTS distributions should be encouraged to patch this) Additionally, I believe there to be a multiple request bug somewhere as this endpoint is being hit approximately 3-4 times in the same second for each client we see. Based on the corresponding hit to autoconfig.kde.org/discover/featured-5.9.json which happens at the same time it is likely the application showing this fault the most is Discover. If we could please get the above all fixed up that would be appreciated. Thanks, Ben