Hello Geminaut, I wonder if trying to limite the non human and individual human internet bandwidth usage, could be good for the planet? Way to do this could be: - no more than 1 req/s from one IP - explicit autorisation for crawler with a maximum of req/day How to manage multi-user http2gemini gateway? freD. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20200709/8feb 9f89/attachment-0001.htm>
> On Jul 9, 2020, at 08:42, defdefred <defdefred at protonmail.com> wrote: > > I wonder if trying to limite the non human and individual human internet bandwidth usage, could be good for the planet? ? propos: Webwaste https://alistapart.com/article/webwaste/
On Thursday 9 July 2020 17:01, Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com> wrote: > https://alistapart.com/article/webwaste/ True and not only image and video, but all the dynamic javascript around. Software are more and more bloated too. I read a news this morning about using python script into web page for client side execution to replace javascript... Reading the paper I saw that it is javascript code that interprete python code !!
On Thu Jul 9, 2020 at 8:42 AM CEST, defdefred wrote: > Hello Geminaut, > > I wonder if trying to limite the non human and individual human internet > bandwidth usage, could be good for the planet? > > Way to do this could be: > - no more than 1 req/s from one IP > - explicit autorisation for crawler with a maximum of req/day There is a temporary error status code (44) with the meaning of "slow down", intended for use in rate limiting schemes like this. To my knowledge, no server yet supports configuring this, but I do plan to add it to Molly Brown and have been thinking of simple ways to implement it. Anyway, that would be the obvious way to do this. I fully understand and appreciate the issue and motivation, and want to be mindful of the issue, but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that things like Gemini and Gopher are, by default and without any special effort, orders of magnitude less resource intensive than most of the modern internet. Cheers, Solderpunk > How to manage multi-user http2gemini gateway? > > freD.
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