Getting slammed by a client

[Paul Boyd]

I had a few of these too. Not nearly as many though. Request counts by
minute (UTC):

      3 2020-07-24T18:16
      2 2020-07-24T18:24
      1 2020-07-24T18:27
      1 2020-07-24T19:36
     29 2020-07-24T19:59
      1 2020-07-24T20:00
     22 2020-07-24T23:25
      3 2020-07-24T23:33
      2 2020-07-24T23:34
      1 2020-07-24T23:40
     24 2020-07-24T23:41

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 8:46 PM <colecmac at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Same here, over 1494 requests since Jul 23 17:22:40. It ended
> at Jul 24 19:41:05 for me. That's in EST timezone.
>
> And yes, I can confirm the URL parsing was horribly done, approximately
> 300 of those requests (20%) resulted in 51 NOT FOUND errors, seemingly
> all because of incorrectly constructed relative URLs. If this happens
> again I will likely ban the IP.
>
> Thanks for bringing this to my/our attention, I wasn't aware of until now.
> Do you have some monitoring system in place? How did you find out?
>
> Cheers,
> makeworld
>
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