Re^2: Use WWW::Mechanize to Download Pictures of Sayuri Anzu

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Re^3: Use WWW::Mechanize to Download Pictures of Sayuri Anzu by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 05, 2004 at 04:23 UTC
A single home computer can indeed generate enough traffic to be a problem for a server. Particularly if that server is hosted on someone else's home computer. In any case having a robot work as fast as it can is considered very rude, and many sites try to autodetect that and stop answering the robot's requests.	[reply]
Re^4: Use WWW::Mechanize to Download Pictures of Sayuri Anzu by diotalevi (Canon) on Aug 05, 2004 at 05:47 UTC
WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy does exactly this.	[reply]
Re^3: Use WWW::Mechanize to Download Pictures of Sayuri Anzu by roju (Friar) on Aug 05, 2004 at 17:36 UTC
Disagreed. See here for instance. You're thinking of a Distributed-DoS.	[reply]