[Audioscrobbler-development] Spam protection woes

[Gareth S. <g.s...@zo...>]

Hi, I (and my users) are getting spam protection warnings all the time.

The cause seems to be that sometimes the server doesn't respond in a timely
way to submissions.

My logs suggest I don't even get an HTTP header back.

The sequence of events seems to be

Track 1 is submitted - there is no response so it remains in the cache.

Track 2 is added to the cache and both tracks are submitted together (in the
correct order).

I get an OK back from the server and clear the cache.

I then get a spam warning that Track 1 was submitted after Track 2.

It looks like the first submission actually succeeds (possibly after the
second?) but without sending back an response.

I can't see any obvious way of fixing this on the client side.

If the server doesn't respond I can't just assume that the submission got
through.

I'm using libscrobbler's default timeout time of 30 secs if that makes any
difference.