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0 pointsahbyb6y ago0 comments

What if I create a PDF with this content...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

and so on, until 10,000,000? Perhaps Facebook starts opening every link using 10,000 parallel threads. Can you really replicate that from your connection at home? Perhaps even the sysadmin of your victim site has whitelisted all Facebook IP addresses so their crawlers get a free ride.

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gojomo6y ago· 1 in thread

There's a fair chance the service which generates these outbound requests throttles itself, both with respect to how many requests it makes against any one domain/IP, or how many errors it will provoke per time period, or before human review.

zeptoon6y ago

Maybe, maybe not

GhostVII6y ago

I would imagine it queries sequentially so it wouldn't have too many parallel threads. Not much reason to parallelize.

zeptoon6y ago

It's this kind of thinking that unearths the bugs

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