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From: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Daniela Lura <danielaluraa@gmail.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:10:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kqbjhv0.fsf@cbaines.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sfnpl9j.fsf@gnu.org>

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Heya Danjela,
>
> Daniela Lura <danielaluraa@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Taking into consideration the suggestion made in this thread:
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-05/msg00096.html, my
>> mentor, Christopher Baines suggested me to write a script that serves a
>> search page for packages using the search functionality within the Guix
>> Data Service,
>> https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-processed-revision/packages?search_query=git&field=version&field=synopsis&after_name=&limit_results=100
>> .
>>
>> The prototype page can be accessed through a test version of the Guix
>> website that Chris deployed:
>> http://guix-website-test.cbaines.net/packages/search
>
> Cool!  To be clear, guix-website-test actually makes a search query on a
> Data Service instance, right?  I guess that explains part of the
> slowness, but maybe we could tweak nginx to keep search results in cache
> for a few hours.
>
> Florian raised an important issue regarding the possibility of denial of
> service.  Ideas on how to mitigate that, either in the Data Service, or
> nginx at guix.gnu.org?

On this point specifically, I've used the rate limiting functionality in
NGinx before, and that's probably a low cost approach to guarding
against this. It's not going to stop a DDOS, but might help avoid lots
of requests from one IP address causing load issues.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-13 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-08 18:49 [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages Daniela Lura
2020-07-08 20:31 ` Cook, Malcolm
2020-07-08 21:00   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-07-10 10:15   ` Daniela Lura
2020-07-09  0:53 ` Bengt Richter
2020-07-09  6:17 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-07-10 10:26   ` Daniela Lura
2020-07-09  7:47 ` Hartmut Goebel
2020-07-09  8:50 ` zimoun
2020-07-09  9:32 ` YP
2020-07-13 13:56   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-13 14:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-13 20:10   ` Christopher Baines [this message]
2020-07-13 22:04     ` Marius Bakke
2020-07-14 13:24     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-14 19:47       ` Marius Bakke
2020-09-06 14:19         ` Daniela Lura
2020-09-07 10:20           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-08 16:50             ` Daniela Lura
2020-09-08 16:38           ` Hartmut Goebel
2020-07-14  9:19   ` Daniela Lura
2020-07-14 13:23     ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-11-05 16:53 Luis Felipe
2022-11-05 18:53 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-05 19:59   ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-09 16:43     ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-13  8:46       ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-15 13:30         ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-16 16:25           ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-16 18:46             ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-16 14:55       ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-16 16:32         ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-16 18:50           ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-18 19:03           ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-19 10:51             ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-19 12:03               ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-19 13:53                 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-21 11:06                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-11-19 16:07               ` John Kehayias
2022-11-19 16:13                 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-21 20:30                   ` John Kehayias
2022-11-20 22:33               ` zimoun
2022-11-21  8:57                 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-21 17:03                   ` zimoun
2022-11-22  8:23                     ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-21 12:57             ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-11-21 13:21               ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-21 19:11                 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-21 19:00               ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-21 20:42                 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-11-07  9:18   ` Ludovic Courtès

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