- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:02:08 +0100
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- CC: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "www-archive@w3.org" <www-archive@w3.org>
Simon Pieters wrote: > > -public-html > +www-archive > ...as this is getting slightly off-topic for the HTML WG and I don't > like spamming the list. > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:27:12 +0100, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: > >> The advantage to "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" though is that it can >> be pasted into a browser, and resolves to a page that explains what it >> is and where to find the spec. "http://w3.org/xlink" could do the >> same, easily. > > There are disadvantages to that, too, though. The URI is not meant to be > dereferenced, but since it is dereferencable, it *is* by a lot of lazy > scripts and crappy software, which leads to an ongoing DDoS attack at > w3.org. > > http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic Do we have any evidence that this is caused by software automatically dereferencing namespace URIs? My impression was that the problem is caused solely by DTD access. > ... BR, Julian
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