- From: Brian Kelly <B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:01:40 -0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Could not this problem be dealt with by simply checking the referer page and if there referer field was not CAST (or, now WatchFire) either reject the request, or throttle back the service? Brian --------------------------------------- Brian Kelly UK Web Focus UKOLN University of Bath BATH BA2 7AY Email: B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk Web: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Phone: 01225 38 3943 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Hitchcock Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:26 AM To: 'Tim Roberts'; 'WAI list' Subject: RE: Alternative validation tools. I'd like to mention that the free page test limits are due primarily to the abuse of developers who wrote scripts to run against the Bobby server attempting to replicate the functionality of the $99.00 Bobby client. Those scripts were taking the CAST server down so often that there were periods when Bobby was not available at all. I understand that Watchfire had the same experience and found it necessary to impose similar limits.
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