I would have thought self.error(429). That doesn't work? Is there a doc that 
says what codes are are allowed to return?

On Aug 3, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Kyle Finley <kylefin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, thank you.  Do you have any thoughts on how to return error code 429?
> 
> On Aug 3, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Joshua Smith wrote:
> 
>> There are couple problems with your snippet.
>> 
>> First, she's getting HEAD not GET requests, so you need to use different 
>> handler.
>> 
>> Also, you aren't returning, so if you were in a GET request, it would 
>> proceed to handle the request regardless.
>> 
>> Something more like this (untested):
>> 
>> class MainHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):
>>   def head(self):
>>     self.error(401)
>> 
>>   def get(self):
>>     if (self.request.headers['User-Agent'].startswith('curl'))
>>       self.error(401)
>>       return
>>     # rest of the get handler
>> 
>> On Aug 3, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Kyle Finley <kylefin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Joshua, 
>>> 
>>> Thank you, that's a good thought. 
>>> 
>>> Kate sent me some files offline, and I believe we've figured out the 
>>> problem. For the middleware to work you must be using WSGI not CGI. Someone 
>>> please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe she would have to upgrade 
>>> here App to python27 to use it. The alternative is to do the check in the 
>>> webapp request handler:
>>> 
>>> def check_for_curl(self):
>>>     if self.request.environ['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].startswith('curl'):
>>>         return self.error(401)
>>> 
>>> class MainHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):
>>>     def get(self):
>>>         check_for_curl(self)
>>>         # handle request
>>> 
>>> The problem is that webapp doesn't recognize error code 429 so we have to 
>>> use something else. Unless there's a simple way to make it write 429?
>>> 
>>> - Kyle
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