On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
>
> hello...
> As many have noted, cvsweb.openbsd.org has had some problems lately due to
> bots that ignore the robots.txt file and try to download every imaginable
> permutation of diffs for every single file, often thousands of hits
> per minute, and from thousands of different IP addresses. Unfortunately,
> this just doesn't work well with a perl script being fired up for every
> hit.
>
> Ken Westerback took it upon himself to rewrite cvsweb in "Go", and after
> a lot of annoying bike-shedding from me, we got something to put on line and
> see how it handles the load.
>
> So...give it a try at
> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org
> or
> https://cvsweb.openbsd.org
> and see how it works for you. If you see any important features missing,
> let us know. At the moment, it appears to be handling the bot-load much
> better than the old version, and the performance is much better for users.
nice work. it feels very snappy.
it looks like 'Diff to <rev>' links produce no response.
is the source available?
>
> Note: while it LOOKS a lot like the old version, it is NOT URL compatible
> with the perl version, so old bookmarks into files won't work.
>
> Nick.
>
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