openmtl's Journal: Why can't slashdot send a soap message WARNING.

Just thought that why can't Slashdot send a soap or similar trusted message to web servers saving that they are about to be slashdotted ?. Do this when message gets pre-posted (subscribers-only).

If message was signed then this could prove to be a nice trigger for e.g. url re-writing and add an extra lightly loaded page with more complicated drilldown rules e.g. slowly send a GIF which has to be read and then re-typed in to get to the correct URL.

Only needed on slower sites. Just a thought.