- From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:06:19 -0400
- To: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Nicolas, interesting but I would like to understand the issues you are having. Le 17 juil. 2012 à 15:23, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > Le Mar 17 juillet 2012 21:03, Julian Reschke a écrit : >> Could you elaborate? What kind of misbehavior are you referring to? > > Typical misbehaviour is inability to cope with intermediary-inserted redirect and error codes, and retrying in a loop Do you have a precise example of such an issue? > Then you get the web clients that try to interpret error pages which clients? > Then you get the 'pump as much as you can' web client that will starve everything else. which clients, which circumstances? > It's usually less invasive to blacklist or limit just the specific > troublesome client seen from the client side. Note that it happens quite often that people use a "regular user agent" to run a spambot. So the user agent string is not an absolute signature of the user agent behind. -- Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/ Developer Relations, Opera Software
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