Hello!

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 12:07:46PM -0500, Adam Fisk wrote:
> It certainly has had that effect, although I wonder in practice how much using
> HTTP would have made it more vulnerable.  It didn't make Gnutella any more
> vulnerable, although BitTorrent is more closely integrated with web servers.

I think it's a bad idea for Gnutella to use HTTP for downloads. Consider this:

http://www.csd.uoc.gr/~elathan/publications/gdos-paper-final.pdf

I don't know, literally, if the HTTP choice made Gnutella vulnerable, but, at
least, I can tell that this choice made Gnutella dangerous for Web Servers.

Regards,
-- 
Elias Athanasopoulos
Distributed Computing Systems (DCS)
Institute of Computer Science (ICS/FORTH)
Heraklion, Crete

A bug can become a feature by documenting it.

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