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Originally Posted by bcbrown
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Pretty sure it's you who's mistaken. I don't think you understand what PigParse is. It's not just a tunnelquest website, it's also a log-reading utility that does DPS parsing and mapping, and I guess loading all items the wiki lists as dropping from a mob every time you /con it.
Here's the ConHandler hitting the the WikiApi:
https://github.com/smasherprog/EqToo...Handler.cs#L46
Here's the WikiApi directly hitting the wiki:
https://github.com/smasherprog/EqToo...ikiApi.cs#L107
Sure don't see any caching happening.
If it's hitting the p99 wiki every time any player using pigparse /cons a mob, that's a lot more than "one page, even a few times". And sure, I'm aware of the difference between that and an non-rate-limited multithreaded crawler, but unless you have some special insight into wiki traffic from being an administrator, neither of us knows whether the wiki slowness is caused by crawlers or something else. In contrast, the issue pointed out by Mattson is a real source of a nontrivial amount of unnecessary traffic. So why bother responding dissmissively if you're not even going to put in the effort to understand what the issue is?
It seems like the maintainer is aware that this is... not a best practice, and I see some (unfinished) work today to begin to implement caching:
https://github.com/smasherprog/EqToo...0ae286a691d333 |
So PigParse
is DDOSing our wiki? Awesome!
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Look, I googled and saw an auction site. I can't be responsible for every tool and knowing how they all work ... I just figured no dev would be so stupid (and cruel) as to effectively encourage users to DDOS the wiki!
But, to be fair, I'm still unclear how many users it has, how often they spam the "take down the wiki" button, etc. If it only results in a few requests per user per minute, that's the same as a human wiki user (and not a problem). But if it's making a whole bunch of requests per second, frequently ... the PigParse dev is a true jerk, and Rogean should block the tool from wiki access.