Ethereal-dev: Re: Re: [Ethereal-dev] CVS web interface: 403 forbidden

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:00:15 -0500 (CDT)
> > Someone tried to mirror everything under /cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ early
> > Sunday morning, which added a considerable load to the server.  I disabled
> > the script so that I'd stop getting paged.  :)  It's been reenabled.
> > 
> 
> BTW: I use the "download tarball" feature on the CVS web interface to get the latest source tarball, doing this last time on Thursday (so it wasn't me on sunday...). Is this a problem for the server load? Should I better use the nightly snapshots instead?

The problem on Sunday came from someone loading "viewcvs.cgi" several
thousand times over the course of an hour using something called
"Offline Explorer".  Downloading a tarball via the CVS web interface
occasionally is fine.