W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic 334
eldavojohn writes "It's a common string you see at the start of an HTML document, a URI declaring the type of document, but that is often processed causing undue traffic to W3C's site. There's a somewhat humorous post today from W3.org that seems to be a cry for sanity and asking developers and people to stop building systems that automatically query this information. From their post, 'In particular, software does not usually need to fetch these resources, and certainly does not need to fetch the same one over and over! Yet we receive a surprisingly large number of requests for such resources: up to 130 million requests per day, with periods of sustained bandwidth usage of 350Mbps, for resources that haven't changed in years. The vast majority of these requests are from systems that are processing various types of markup (HTML, XML, XSLT, SVG) and in the process doing something like validating against a DTD or schema. Handling all these requests costs us considerably: servers, bandwidth and human time spent analyzing traffic patterns and devising methods to limit or block excessive new request patterns. We would much rather use these assets elsewhere, for example improving the software and services needed by W3C and the Web Community.' Stop the insanity!"
Wow (Score:2, Funny)
The Solution (Score:5, Funny)
Do what.... (Score:5, Funny)
Put links to Goatse in the definitions!
Leave it to Slashdot... (Score:2, Funny)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters</title>
Who designed this crazy system?! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The Solution (Score:5, Funny)
Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
Continue to host the data referenced on a single T-1 line. That will cut your expenses to the bone since you'll never exceed 1.54 Mbps and that should be quite cheap. And, any dumfuxorz who fubarred their parser to not cache these basically static values will probably figure it out... very quickly.
You don't have to leave it on the T-1, maybe just 1 month out of the year. Every year.
Problem solved!
WARNING: GNAA (Score:2, Funny)
Irony (Score:5, Funny)
So, w3c complains about their bandwidth, and the response is: The Slashdot Effect. Doesn't that make the old bandwidth problem seem less of a problem?
I'm just loving the irony in that.
Such an easy solution (Score:5, Funny)
Submitted this to /.? (Score:5, Funny)
Starting on the 1st, fool (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Delay (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Umm, no. (Score:1, Funny)
Either you have the super-human power to defy the laws of logic, or the word "need" does not mean what you think it means.
Hey, for once... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Probably for the same reason that many other people hate them. They announce themselves to people as being a "webmaster". It's a really stupid title. They don't preform wizardry. If I can't at least be a "codemaster", and maybe our plumber gets to be called a "pipemaster", then we'll continue to mock anyone who uses the word. Oooh, "plungemaster". I think he'd go for that.
What's their website URN, anyway? (Score:4, Funny)
(ducks and runs)
Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)