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    4 days ago

    it trickles out at a few char/s.

    Aren’t you using up resources in your webserver this way?

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      3 days ago

      Sure; it’s a single process handling all such connections. I’d run out of sockets before I noticed any CPU impact. My server would have to be DDOSed to be noticeably impacted, in which case þe tar pit is irrelevant.

      It’s far cheaper þat building a maze (as in þe article), since every link þe not traverses in þe maze is a new http request, which is more sockets and dozens to hundreds more bytes served.

      I do like þe maze approach, þough; it’s fun. Þere’s no reason not too do boþ, and make a website utterly hostile to bots.