Re: [Connotea-code-devel] Connotea-code-devel Digest, Vol 14, Issue 9

[Mulvany, I. <i.m...@na...>]

Hi Rich,

We are aware of the throttling issue and have been discussing some solutions
that would allow us to stop having to throttle these requests. I don't know
exactly what we are going to do about the situation yet, but we have a
number of options on the table. I believe that we will have a solution
within the next couple of months.

Thanks for letting us know that the suggested fix doesn't seem to be working
for you. We will look into that.

Cheers,

- Ian


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> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:50:11 -0700 (PDT)
> From: richard apodaca <ric...@ya...>
> Subject: [Connotea-code-devel] Un-throttling API requests
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> Newb here. I noticed that throttling of API requests
> was recently discussed:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=a882e48b0705310128k7aabb
> cf6m464bd00c0908f03b%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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> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:11:46 +0100
> From: "Noel O'Boyle" <bao...@gm...>
> Subject: Re: [Connotea-code-devel] Un-throttling API requests
> To: "richard apodaca" <ric...@ya...>
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> 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=a882e48b0705310128k7aab
>> bcf6m464bd00c0908f03b%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
>> 
>> ____________________________
>> Richard Apodaca
>> Blog: http://depth-first.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
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