Amazing work, thank you so much for this. It feels much snappier. Thank
you to Ken W.
On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 17:55:07 -0500
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.
>
> 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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