[python-advocacy] Python makes the "most wanted list"

[Michael Foord]

Laura Creighton wrote:
> I'm having a hard time understanding what is going on here.
>
> Do we have a library which for no reason just calls up the WC3 site
> and pesters them?
>
> or are all those requests because somebody really wants to talk to
> WC3, on purpose, but now WC3 is miffed because it cannot find out who
> is accessing its site?
>
> Or am I misunderstanding totally?
>   

The library doesn't do it deliberately. It is probably caused by 
applications parsing html and following all links (extracted with 
regular expressions). The W3C schema definitions look like links (they 
are URLs) - so these pages get unnecessarily fetched millions of times.

Michael Foord

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