this stuff annoys the hell out of me too, i run my test #realy fairly infrequently but within minutes some bot is trying to scrape it for WoT relevant events, and i wish there was an effective thing to slow that down
i tried adding one kind of rate limiter but that didn't really work out so well, in the past what i've seen work best tends to be where the relay just stops aswering and dropping everything that comes in... probably if that included pings the other side would automatically drop
i've now added plain HTML and i think that requires something also but maybe more simple, like, if it gets a query more than once every 5 seconds for 5 such periods it steadily adds more and more delay in processing, the difference to sockets is to do it on http it has to associate with an IP address
mleku
npub1fj…mleku
2025-03-28 06:06:19
in reply to nevent1q…hfj8
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