--- Boyle Owen <Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The RFC specifically > requires the server to respond to valid requests > with a response message (which may be 403 > Forbidden). Unfortunately, there's nothing in the > RFC that allows for "closing a connection". Well, these "standards" were obviously written by people who have never used commercial web hosting and who have never had to deal with DDoS attacks, worms, spam bots, or users who set their update check bots to download a page twice a second (and always the entire page even when it is unchanged). But this is probably the wrong mailing list for such a discussion. Thanks for the replies. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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