I do like it... if servers didn't have that rate-limit, then no one might need it (except some modem connections).
I use prozilla sometimes and I do like it. What I wouldn't like is to see it removed from portage so, what shall I do to prevent that situation?? On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:21:14 -0500, Nicholas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Prozilla (www-client/prozilla) is masked in Portage since 2004-11-22 > > because it suffered from a serious (and exploited) vulnerability[1] and > > lack of upstream love. > > Also because no one really likes it. It's a connection spamming > tool that really would do better to support multiple hosts as > opposed to trying to get around connection rate-limiting by > opening 5 connections to the same host. It's rather rude, really. > > --NJ > > > -- Ioannis Aslanidis <deathwing00[at]forums.gentoo.org> 0xC2539DA3 <aioannis[at]tinet.org> 0xF202D067 <dwcommander[at]users.sourceforge.net> Hellenic Gentoo GNU/Linux project manager (http://hellenicgentoo.sf.net) FIRECOPS++ project manager (http://firecops.sf.net) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator (http://forums.gentoo.org) Computer Engineering student at Universitat Rovira i Virgili -- [email protected] mailing list
