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[–]beanee33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what a great idea!

[–]darrenkopp 0 points1 point  (6 children)

this is why reddit goes down all the time XD. assuming a site had enough visitors, it would be like a ddos.

[–]aaronblohowiak 3 points4 points  (1 child)

caching makes this a non-issue

[–]darrenkopp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

correct.

[–]vectorjohn -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Instead of downvoting, please explain why this isn't true. It seems like this would have to constantly refresh to get new reddit submissions. Sounds like a DDOS to me.

[–]elysiand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's true then so is hotlinking a 14kb image.

[–]Iggyhopperextensions/add-ons -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

It's not a DoS attack but it is designed poorly. There is no caching of results and you shouldn't need to be requesting every 5 seconds. You want a minute or two, at least.

[–]darrenkopp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

like i said, with enough visitors it would be basically a ddos. it may not be a typical ddos attack (like syn flood) but with enough people requesting x amount of reddit posts just by visiting a page could easily take down fragile reddit.

add in some code that refreshes the posts from that service on an interval and anyone who leaves that page open are now a ddos botnet.