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@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ Powxy is a reverse proxy that protects your upstream service by challenging clients with SHA-256 proof-of-work. -A demo instance is available at [git.runxiyu.org](https://git.runxiyu.org/). -It may experience occasional outages. +A demo instance used to be available. Due to various backend performance +improvements, it became no longer necessary to protect it against scrapers, +so the Powxy instance was removed. The goal is to discourage scraping, as it becomes expensive for a client to perform en masse. This is especially useful at protecting things like Git @@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ program provided near the HTML form, and submit their nonce manually. - We should allow Git clients and RSS readers. - If a user is attempting to submit a POST request but their powxy cookie is invalid, powxy would redirect them to a challenge, and their POST data will + be lost. - It does not work when duplex connections are needed, e.g. with Git's Smart HTTP protocol. |