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Agreed. From a quick look at code, it seems it just fires off every fetch request immediately after another compeletes. Hopefully it gets patched to have a bui

• derefr 10y ago
  If it's already serial, and only works with one backend (rather than being an arbitrary mirroring tool like wget), then the Wayback server can easily "express its preferences" for rate-limiting by adding artificial delay to request-responses that pass the rate-limiting threshold. Backpressure shouldn't be the client's responsibility. (It only is traditionally, because so many sites do nothing to protect themselves from "being too nice", so arbitrary-backend mirroring-client devs allow their users the option to ask for less than they want. This isn't a sensible protocol design, on either side; it doesn't optimize for, well, anything.)