On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:43:10 -0700, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Christopher Mahan wrote:
Can we not find a way to find the referer and add
a fundraiser if
slashdot is in it?
That would kill caching, which would kill our servers.
Kill our servers? No. Vaporize our servers into a fine quantam mist?
Certainly. :)
Would it be thoroughly impossible to stick on another (hackish)
low-overhead layer that did nothing if the referrer was not Slashdot,
but otherwise would redirect to a specially cached version of the
page? Would it be possible to intercept Slashdot to a temporary quick
hi-welcome-slashdotters-give-us-money page before forwarding the user
on to the real article (automatically or via a link)?