Bump... Still need an answer on this. We are waiting to turn the map view back to the primary view until we hear back from the Google Base team about the 403 error below. Please help. Thanks! Ken Hamric
On Sep 23, 4:16 pm, Ken <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We have been using Google Base's http interface to display > supplemental results in the homes for sale by owner vertical for > several years. In July we upgraded our 'map view' to also include > these supplemental results. Today, we switched our site over to use > the map view as our primary view. This will increase the number of > queries we are sending. After a couple of hours, we began receiving > 403 Forbidden error messages. I just grabbed the body of the message > - it says: > > We're sorry... > > ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a > computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't > process your request right now. > > We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again > soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network > has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware > remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other > spurious software. > > We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again > on Google. > > I believe we had the same issue back in July when we first implemented > the Google Base integration with our maps. I searched the forum for > the message, but not see it. I believe we contacted you and our limit > was increased. We have around 300K site visits per month, so it is > not an incredible amount of traffic, but it is significant. I have > alter the site so the map view is not the primary view again until we > can get this corrected. This should drop our volume. > > You can see an example of the map page > athttp://www.homesbyowner.com/jackson_tn/map.asp. > We do a gbase query every time the map is moved. It is my > understanding that we are not allowed to cache the gbase information - > if we were to cache it (5 minute cache timeout), we could reduce the > amount of queries if the volume is an issue. If the limit can just be > increased, that would be great. > > Please let me know if you need additional information. > > Thanks > Ken Hamric > Founder - HomesByOwner.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-base-data-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
