Hi Mike, The Search API does not use or need authentication. It is highly recommended to use a descriptive user-agent in your requests.
Thanks, -Chad On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:18 PM, mahall<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hopefully I'm not starting a new thread for a previous topic but I was > unable to find similar one. > > Is there a proper list of settings for an HTTP request to the search > API? We are doing requests from a couple of servers (different IPs) > and only run into rate limiting issues ("You have been rate limited. > Enhance your calm.") when providing an HTTP authentication. Our > account (citizennet) is whitelisted for the regular API and it does > not seem like it should hurt us to provide our username and password. > It is not IP based as we get the same problem on several servers and > it is fixed on all by simply removing the username and password. > > So I guess my question is: Is it preferred for us to provide username > and password? User agent? Forwarding? > > Thanks, > > -- Mike >
