Glenn Fleishman Throttles Down RSS Bandwidth

Posted Dec 8th 2004 4:38PM by Harold Check

After noticing the data transmitted via the Wi-Fi Networking News RSS feed was escalating much faster than the number of subscribers, Glenn Fleishman decided to do something about it. After two weeks, his simple fix has shaved some megabytes off of his monthly bandwidth bill.

I built a simple program running via Apache that throttles RSS downloads: a given IP and user agent combination can only request a given RSS feed file if it's changed since they last retrieved it. Pretty simple. But the effects are profound…

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1. Where's the fix/file/edit to Apache?

Posted at 4:46AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Brian

2. I'm going to release the code when I've had a chance to be sure it's not horrible--it's in pretty good shape, but I'm hacker not a pro, so I want to make sure I'm not revealing any system vulnerabilities before I expose my code.

Posted at 4:46AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Glenn Fleishman

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