[gopher] Whole lotta hits

[Kim Holviala]

On 14.9.2011 14:22, Jacob Dahl Pind wrote:

>>> As we cant ratelimit, or any other robots.txt things when those web
>>> crawlers are hitting us through those proxies, I have opped for simply
>>> redirecting access from those proxies to another selector.
>>
>> That's actually a pretty good feature, I might blatantly steal it for
>> the upstream version, without attribution.
>>
> Had wanted to send it to you, but started looking at having it using
> hostnames also, am just a bit worried about having it resolving on each
> connection.

I was thinking about Apache-like Allow/Deny directives, but those would 
have required a config file instead of just simple options. And parsing 
the config file really works only with proper daemons, not with 
inetd-type services which keep launching themselves over and over again.....

At the same time I was also thinking about doing password-protected 
directories. Easy enough to do even with the original protocol, but I'm 
not sure if anyone would find those useful...


- Kim