TiddlySpace/tiddlyspace — Issue #850: universal backstage requests /status over and over in some situations
Author: cdent
Created: 2011-12-27 14:56:05+00:00
State: open

It's hard to tell what is causing this, because it is not something that happens with every request but sometimes in the logs a single host requets /status repeatedly, slightly faster than every second:

Here's a small sample:

```

209.190.172.98 - - [27/Dec/2011:13:54:34 +0000] "GET /status HTTP/1.1" 200 196 "ht
tp://tiddlywiki.org/bags/common/tiddlers/backstage" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i6
86; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111107 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.24" tiddly
wiki.org 2983
209.190.172.98 - - [27/Dec/2011:13:54:35 +0000] "GET /status HTTP/1.1" 200 196 "http://tiddlywiki.org/bags/common/tiddlers/backstage" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111107 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.24" tiddlywiki.org 3043
209.190.172.98 - - [27/Dec/2011:13:54:40 +0000] "GET /status HTTP/1.1" 200 196 "http://tiddlywiki.org/bags/common/tiddlers/backstage" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111107 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.24" tiddlywiki.org 3336
209.190.172.98 - - [27/Dec/2011:13:54:41 +0000] "GET /status HTTP/1.1" 200 196 "http://tiddlywiki.org/bags/common/tiddlers/backstage" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111107 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.24" tiddlywiki.org 3000
209.190.172.98 - - [27/Dec/2011:13:54:42 +0000] "GET /status HTTP/1.1" 200 196 "http://tiddlywiki.org/bags/common/tiddlers/backstage" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111107 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.24" tiddlywiki.org 2942
209.190.172.98 - - [27/Dec/2011:13:54:43 +0000] "GET /status HTTP/1.1" 200 196 "http://tiddlywiki.org/bags/common/tiddlers/backstage" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111107 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.24" tiddlywiki.org 3014
```

The only pattern I've been able to identify is that it seems to always be Firefox 3 or 5.

It's _not_ just tiddlywiki.org, other spaces as well.

This is something important to fix, there are hundreds of useless requests being made in a very small amount of time. Although the requests are very small they add up.