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The W3C servers are slow to return DTDs. Is the delay intentional?

April 26, 2017delay dtds intentional Return servers slow W3C

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The W3C servers are slow to return DTDs. Is the delay intentional?

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Yes. Due to various software systems downloading DTDs from our site millions of times a day (despite the caching directives of our servers), we have started to serve DTDs from our site with an artificial delay. Our goals in doing so are to bring more attention to our ongoing issues with excessive DTD traffic, and to protect the stability and response time of the rest of our site.