On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:43:10 -0700, Brion Vibber brion@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)?