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
> 
> 
> 


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