Dexter Castor Döpping <[email protected]> writes:

>In another case (http://ca-repository.desc.gov.ae/*) I don't know why I'm
>being blocked. Perhaps because of the user-agent header, or maybe because I
>exceeded a rate limit.

That's an interesting point, at what stage do you decide you're being DoS'd
and rate-limit?  I was pleasantly surprised recently when I was debugging a
resource-exhaustion issue on an embedded device that I could run a CA-cert
fetch in a loop without being rate-limited (thank you to whoever set up
cacerts.digicert.com for not rate-limiting :-).  However since it could turn
into a DoS (I only did around 200 fetches with a wait between each one so
barely a blip), presumably there would need to be some text in any guidelines
about when it was permissible to rate-limit.

Peter.

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