FlashFlood
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It's being made out to be this super-mega-awesome-world-ending way to bring down remote servers. How? By adding random crap to the end of a URL query string.
This technique was old in 1994.
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oh goddess.... no!
not this site!
please? i'll be good. i promise!
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Don't worry, Discourse uses technology from ten years in the future where servers are immune to querystrings.
Filed Under: Is Discourse even caching anything? Some of you have a local instance, right? Please tell me :D
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My normal me would say "Yeah, totally, nobody doesn't cache nowadays"
But something inside of my head screams "DISCOURSE DICOURSE" and dances a funny dance....
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Wait, this isn't an emoji‽
See footnote in:
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not yet. but you can issue a pull request
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It's being made out to be this super-mega-awesome-world-ending way to bring down remote servers. How? By adding random crap to the end of a URL query string.
Hey guys, we've invented this cool attack technique, it's called DDoS!
As for Discourse, I managed to do the exact opposite thing back in the days. It was about 1000% more cool.
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Also, gotta love that e-fireplace in the background, with animation et al:
http://i.imgur.com/xqzQTHN.png
The other guy wins by a beard, though:
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I'ma pick door B. Show me goat.