Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising

Fennec Foxen <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:49:34 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.legal
Message-ID <3406cd4e040712104940b5fa43__37480.5521606051$1089654593$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:43:10 -0700, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Christopher Mahan wrote:
> > Can we not find a way to find the referer and add a fundraiser if
> > slashdot is in it?
> 
> That would kill caching, which would kill our servers.

Kill our servers? No. Vaporize our servers into a fine quantam mist?
Certainly. :)

Would it be thoroughly impossible to stick on another (hackish)
low-overhead layer that did nothing if the referrer was not Slashdot,
but otherwise would redirect to a specially cached version of the
page? Would it be possible to intercept Slashdot to a temporary quick
hi-welcome-slashdotters-give-us-money page before forwarding the user
on to the real article (automatically or via a link)?