Re: Proposal for an HTTP ERR method

I think the spamming problem can be largely mitigated with two
techniques:

o Define the error reporting as a best effort service that may silently
drop reported errors.

o Use highly aggressive throttling of multiple errors reported by the
same IP address, or even by classes of user-agents.

> 
> However, a standard header which points to a URI for posting client
> observations -- where the standard is clearly for short, automatically
> generated messages of a certain kind -- would do.
> 
> But then you have the problem of people spamming the error reporting
> mechanism :(

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Received on Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:23:49 UTC