The referrer is not as important as the user-agent. You can also put your URL in the user-agent instead. -Chad
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Larry Wright<larrywri...@gmail.com> wrote: > In addition to setting a unique user-agent, I believe it was requested that > we set a referrer header that pointed back to a domain. > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:30 AM, David Fisher <tib...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> While i haven't done scientific testing of this, I was able to run up >> to 3-4 instances of my search script prior at a time before it told me >> to enhance my calm. Now I'm barely able to run one without hitting the >> limit. I can put delays in my code to slow it down, but I'm wondering >> if this is just a symptom of the aftermath of the DDoS attack or >> something else? My server has a dedicated IP and no one else runs code >> from it, so it isn't other people on my IP hitting the Search API. >> >> Maybe I need to talk about Search API whitelisting... >> >> >> dave >> http://webecologyproject.org > > > -- > Larry Wright >
