Amazing work, thank you so much for this. It feels much snappier. Thank you to Ken W.
On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 17:55:07 -0500 Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > hello... > As many have noted, cvsweb.openbsd.org has had some problems lately > due to bots that ignore the robots.txt file and try to download every > imaginable permutation of diffs for every single file, often > thousands of hits per minute, and from thousands of different IP > addresses. Unfortunately, this just doesn't work well with a perl > script being fired up for every hit. > > Ken Westerback took it upon himself to rewrite cvsweb in "Go", and > after a lot of annoying bike-shedding from me, we got something to > put on line and see how it handles the load. > > So...give it a try at > http://cvsweb.openbsd.org > or > https://cvsweb.openbsd.org > and see how it works for you. If you see any important features > missing, let us know. At the moment, it appears to be handling the > bot-load much better than the old version, and the performance is > much better for users. > > Note: while it LOOKS a lot like the old version, it is NOT URL > compatible with the perl version, so old bookmarks into files won't > work. > > Nick. >
