Clever uses of a custom TCP stack

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

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Fun anecdote, at Blekko we had people who tried to scrape the search engine by fetching all 300 pages of results. They would do that with some script or code and it would be clear they weren’t human because they would ask for each page right after the other. We sent them to a process that Greg wrote on a machine that did most of the TCP handshake and then went away. As a result the scrapers script would hang forever. We saw output that suggested some of these things sat their for months waiting for results that would never come.

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    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12315814
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