On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *if you forget to unsubscribe we send you post requests until the end of > eternity. > Have it cut off if it receives an invalid HTTP response. *dos vector - register someone you don't like's url. Register 1000000 > variants from the same domain. Push enwikipedia's rc feed there. Or you roll out some EC2 instances and open 1000000 sockets. (And before you say rate-limit based on IP address, the same can be done for the HTTP idea.) In any case, I don't see the need to have every form of push api imaginable > implemented. Especially not initially but even in general. Agreed, but this is a pretty basic one. In fact, if you use HTTP keep alive, it's almost identical to the TCP push method anyway, just that you can use a web server rather than rolling your own socket client. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
