Re: [Connotea-code-devel] Un-throttling API requests

[Noel O'B. <bao...@gm...>]

I must admit that the suggestion didn't work for me either, but in the
end I just released my code anyway, with a 2 second interval between
API calls.
Noel

On 14/06/07, richard apodaca <ric...@ya...> wrote:
> Newb here. I noticed that throttling of API requests
> was recently discussed:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=a882e48b0705310128k7aabbcf6m464bd00c0908f03b%40mail.gmail.com
>
> and also:
>
> http://www.connotea.org/wiki/Throttling
>
> I've also experienced what Noel is describing - after
> about 5 rapid-succession GETs I get 503 errors. Then
> after about 5 seconds without issuing GETs, API
> requests are processed.
>
> There was a suggestion to set WWW::Connotea as the
> user agent to fix the problem. I'm using the Ruby API
> which apparently does this by setting:
>
> AGENT = 'WWW::Connotea (ruby net/http)'
>
> This doesn't seem to do the trick, though. Is there
> really a way to 'unthrottle' API requests and if so
> how?
>
> I also like Noel's suggestion to accept more complex
> queries as a way to avoid the throttling issue.
>
> thanks,
> Rich
>
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