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What is does it mean to tarpit someone? Throttle their connection?
by dclusin 7y ago
What is does it mean to tarpit someone? Throttle their connection?
- petre 7y agoWaste their time with a very slow server. Like OpenBSD’s spamd. Think one letter per second for text based protocols.
- mfontani 7y agoPrecisely that
- snowwolf 7y agoSomething like this https://github.com/die-net/http-tarpit https://github.com/die-net/http-tarpit
- KineticLensman 7y agoTo delay incoming connections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)
- judge2020 7y agoCloudflare's specific methods are described in the article, it's likely some web crypto stuff or an extreme response that takes a long time to parse or handle.