Sigh :( Long day ahead for me. What proxy did you use? Have you documented your experience (of setting up a proxy) somewhere? Can you point me to something I can use?
-N On 8 April 2011 11:08, Brandon Wirtz <drak...@digerat.com> wrote: > Been there, argued with Ev about why this was worth having someone fix, > resolved issue using a proxy. Down side is the proxy will likely cost you by > the gig transferred and you have to pay the appengine price for traffic as > well, so your costs go up, but it resolves the issue. Plus in a world where > IP’s are now in limited supply buying an IP somewhere is worth doing if you > rely on API’s from others. > > > > > > > > *From:* google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto: > google-appengine@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Nischal Shetty > *Sent:* Thursday, April 07, 2011 10:33 PM > *To:* google-appengine@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [google-appengine] Being rate limited at twitter due to > some rogue app on GAE, can u shift my app to different ip range? > > > > Yes, they aren't whitelisting apps based on id and that sucks. I'm not > using the search API, I'm making use of authenticated API calls against each > user and it has been working well (my app makes thousands of reqs per hour). > > > > There actually is no rate limit on the calls I make (they are posts not get > and twitter puts limits on gets). But, the twitter API team said that at > times when there are excessive requests, they block these calls as well. > > > > I'm guessing there's some other app that is making a lot of post requests > that are similar to mine. I don't know how to get over this. Right now I'm > trying to move these calls over to some other server, been working on it. > > > > But, I love the appengine, I want to be here :( Is there no way you can > make my app use some other ip range, that might help. > > > > -N > > > > On 8 April 2011 10:17, Nick Johnson (Google) <nick.john...@google.com> > wrote: > > Hi Nischal, > > > > Are you using the search API, or one of the other APIs? The Search API > doesn't require authentication, and so is limited by IP range. The most > likely explanation is not a single badly behaving app - it's simply that > there are a lot of App Engine apps that want to communicate with Twitter. > This is a problem with any service that doesn't have dedicated IPs for each > customer - and that's only going to get worse with the exhaustion of the > IPv4 address space, unfortunately. > > > > We provide the App ID in the referer header so services like Twitter can > distinguish requests from different apps for the purpose of ratelimiting and > abuse detection, but Twitter haven't implemented anything to break apps out > on this basis. > > > > -Nick Johnson > > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:33 AM, nischalshetty <nischalshett...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > My app has been facing limit issues with the twitter API and under > regular circumstances this should not have happened. I've been in > talks with the twitter API team from the last 36 hours and they > checked things on their end. They say that the most probable cause is > some app on the same ip range as my app which might be making a lot of > requests causing my app to be rate limited in the process. > > I don't know what a quick solution to this is but I might have to move > away from appengine because my app is unusable right now. My app has > been running from the last 1 year on the appengine and has 200k+ > users. I need your help :( > > My app id is "justunfollow" . Is there any way you can move it to a > different ip range? > > > -Nischal > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > > -- > -Nischal > > +91-9920240474 > > twitter: NischalShetty <http://twitter.com/nischalshetty> > > facebook: Nischal <http://facebook.com/nischal> > > > > [image: Description: Image removed by sender.]<http://www.justunfollow.com/> > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- -Nischal +91-9920240474 twitter: NischalShetty <http://twitter.com/nischalshetty> facebook: Nischal <http://facebook.com/nischal> <http://www.justunfollow.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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