Re: Defenses against bad robots

mred@neosoft.com
Sun, 19 May 1996 21:46:28 CST


** Reply to note from Steve Jones <stevej@halcyon.com> 05/19/96 6:21pm -0700

> I'm curious if anyone knows a practical amount of time after
> submitting a request before such a robot gives up and decides
> that the "target" is not responding.

Poorly written robots could wait up to two hours (due to default timeouts.) :(

-Ed-
mred@neosoft.com
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