2009/1/13 Leonard Richardson <[email protected]>: >> So, is this possibly but just not obvious, or is it intended that >> there be no anonymous access? > > It's intended that there be no anonymous access. The web service doesn't > have some common use cases of the website (eg. search engine crawlers > or people coming in from lists of search results) and we want to be able > to throttle usage for people who are doing too much expensive stuff > through the web service.
Of course there is <http://www.bugmenot.com/view/launchpad.net> -- and squashing those particular accounts is _not_ the right way to handle it. The web service api has space for an application key - surely that, or source ip block, is the right way to throttle it, if we're getting hit too much? -- Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
