Re: [blogite] Pingback spam

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From: Ian Hickson (ian@hixie.ch)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 12:52:50 BST

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Stuart Langridge wrote:
>
> Sam Rowe complains that the Pingback spec doesn't have any way to
> prevent spam or DoS attacks by repeatedly hitting a Pingback server.
>
> Didn't we discuss this problem and resolve it?

>From the spec:

# However, the following steps are RECOMMENDED:
#
# 1. The server MAY attempt to fetch the source URI to verify that the
# source does indeed link to the target.
#
 -- http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback#TOC3 

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