Re: Moving to Github ... ?

Le 14/05/2026 à 10:25, Denys Vlasenko via busybox a écrit :
> Yes, the usual hosting was adequate years ago, but now it's overloaded
> by too many automated bots crawling all over git and bug pages all the time.

     It seems that many sites are under pressure by IA crawlers. However 
it isn't proven these are attacks.

     In some cases, the bots require non-existing resources, and the 
servers respond by "404 Not found", but, according to RFC2616, this 
response is ambiguous because it does not tell wether the resource is 
permanently or temporarily absent, which sort of means "retry later". 
This might be the reason why the bots retry.

     The HTTP protocol lacks a proper response for the case of a 
resource which never existed and will never. RFC2616 recommends to reply 
by "410 Gone". The text of this response is inproper, but it is the only 
response that tells the recipient "that the resource is intentionally 
unavailable and that the server owners desire that remote links to that 
resource be removed."

--    Didier
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