2009/1/13 Leonard Richardson <leonard.richardson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> So, is this possibly but just not obvious, or is it intended that >> there be no anonymous access? > > It's intended that there be no anonymous access. The web service doesn't > have some common use cases of the website (eg. search engine crawlers > or people coming in from lists of search results) and we want to be able > to throttle usage for people who are doing too much expensive stuff > through the web service. Of course there is <http://www.bugmenot.com/view/launchpad.net> -- and squashing those particular accounts is _not_ the right way to handle it. The web service api has space for an application key - surely that, or source ip block, is the right way to throttle it, if we're getting hit too much? -- Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>
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