The Tweezer's Edge v3Blogging the thoughts and adventures of TweezerMan!Dealing with RSS Feed abuse- March 17, 2005 At not so regular intervals, I look at the web server access logs to see who's accessing the site and where the bandwidth is going. One of the things I look at is bandwidth used by IP address andor User Agent. One issue that always causes high bandwidth usage is someone using an RSS feed reader aggregator that is mis-configured or badly programmed. After an RSS feed has been retrieved the first time, an RSS reader aggregator is supposed to check with the server and see if the RSS feed has..http://tweezersedge.com/archives/2005/03/000543.html |