[hackerspaces] SpaceAPI being polled fast

Ward De Ridder 42 at warddr.eu
Tue Oct 30 11:31:02 CET 2012


On 10/30/12 11:25, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ wrote:
> Excerpts from Eric Stein's message of 2012-10-30 05:01:54 +0000:
>> Since when is 25 seconds too much?  The responses are small, this is not
>> a big deal. Just FYI it is not me doing it.
> can we just add to api itself some kind of: min_pool_interval?
> if someone's script doesn't respect it than can just get blacklisted...
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Blacklisting isn't that easy, I'm just checking the logs and the log bot 
changes IP every hour. The only way to prevent this would be an 
automatic script, and you always get the chanse for a false positive 
(someone hitting refresh a couple of time becouse the response is slow).

Ward


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