Every time I create or use a pipe, I'm indirectly causing hits on some third party's website.  So I was curious to learn how the Yahoo! Pipes backend behaves.  What caching does it do, is it a good and well behaved web citizen in general?

There isn't much official documentation to go on.  The Pipes Troubleshooting guide has some notes on how to stop Pipes from downloading a feed too frequently and how to stop Pipes from using feeds at all.

So, I put myself in the shoes of the third party website that the pipes hit upon to find out more.  ...read more »

It's been nearly a year and a half since I blogged about the WebVulnCrawl bot, and slightly less than that since the crawling was completed by Dennis.

I was very eager to see the results, and had pestered Dennis via his blog several times over the months (comments from me and others have now disappeared from his blogspot for some reason). So I was initially surprised and then very interested to see a post from this now unfamiliar blog in my reader - "Long Overdue - The Final Post".

Dennis comments on some of the ridiculous overreactions that his project incited.  ...read more »