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author: ''
category: ''
date: 2007/07/23 15:59
description: ''
link: ''
priority: ''
slug: BB605
tags: programming, qmail, ra-plugins, rater
title: Rater progresses (slowly)
type: text
updated: 2007/07/23 15:59
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I am hacking a bit on rater_ my daemon/client to see if things are happening more often than they should (in other words, generic rate limiting).

I had to take a few days off, since my brother got married and we all went back to Santa Fe for that and a weekend, and then everyone else has sore throats and I am the only one healthy.

But hey, it works well enough already:

* The simplistic protocol is done

* The server works

  + It can take hours of gibberish_ without problems.

  + It can take hours of valid input without problems.

  + It does what it's supposed to do.

* It's staying below 300SLOC, which was my goal.

Missing stuff:

* Valgrind it.

* Client library.

* Generic CLI client.

* A qmail-spp_ plugin that uses it.

And then, I can forget all about it.

.. _gibberish: http://www.vanheusden.com/Linux/index.php

.. _rater: //ralsina.me/weblog/2007/07/11.html#BB601

.. _qmail-spp: http://qmail-spp.sf.net