web apps with large volumes of bidirectional http traffic

[Sunder]

Easy.  Setup an open http proxy and advertise it. :)  squid's your
friend. But your bandwidth will suffer so you may need some
bandwidth controls.  Then, watch the logs for statistics.

----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---------------------------
 + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of   /|\
  \|/  :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\
<--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech.  \/|\/
  /|\  :Found to date: 0.  Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD.        \|/
 + v + :           The look on Sadam's face - priceless!       
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On Fri, 30 May 2003, Ryan Lackey wrote:

> I need to find some relatively widely deployed applications which have
> frequent user interactions (rapid clicking on links, from as large a
> population of links as possible, and also form filling and such).
> 
> (it should be pretty obvious what this is for)
> 
> I'd like:
> 
> 0) *rapid*/frequent user interactions; fast clicking on things (like every
> second, no more than 5 seconds)
> 
> 1) "sticky"...long interactions with a given site (on the order of hours)
> (also all links need to be under the same url/same server)
> 
> 2) large number of potential links for users to click on, with
> desirable properties for click distribution (I *think* I want them to
> be nearly equally likely, but I might just want a defined
> distribution, or I might even want the opposite of that)
> 
> 3) relatively small data sizes for downloaded data, UNLESS downloaded
> data is generated unique and "randomly"
> 
> 4) widely deployed already on the internet, or compelling enough that
> there would be a decent number of potential server operators.
> Obviously I could *create* an app which has the desirable
> characteristics, but I'd like something which can deal with existing
> data or apps served over the internet)
> 
> 5) good data on how likely users are to click on things, how fast they
> click, etc., so one could easily operate within those parameters.
> 
> So far, the best ideas:
> 1) Porn
> 2) Mailing lists with lots of internal links (next, reply, etc.)
> 3) Sites with search engines with lots of linked data (encyclopedia,
> etc.)
> 4) html games (or flash, maybe) -- either imagemaps, or just tables,
> things like chess, or puzzles, or whatever
> 
> I'd definitely appreciate any suggestions on possible web apps which
> meet these criteria; reply to lists or ryan at venona.com.
> 
> I'll post when it's ready.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan
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