I used to just start giving any IP downloading way too much a redirect to multi-tb NASA images. This was a long time ago but it was surprisingly how many would follow redirects and never time out. Wouldn't see a request again for hours and then its right back to downloading a new part of the sky.
Those images also used to crash all the early GUI irc and chat clients that showed inline images without size checks...
Those images also used to crash all the early GUI irc and chat clients that showed inline images without size checks...