External Proxy, issue solved.  Not to be harsh, but all the API's that are
IP rate limited have this.  

 

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Wursteisen
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 11:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Re: HItting query limit using Geocoding API
from App Engine

 

is an issue was created for this problem ? 

Maybe we can create one if not.

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/



2011/4/9 nickmilon <[email protected]>

Jeff
You are right Google IP pool + app id is what is needed to make rate
limiting unhackable.


On Apr 9, 3:32 am, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:20 PM, nickmilon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > IMHO a proxy will complicate things.
> > What about if GAE team gets in touch with maps V3 team and explain to
> > them the issue so may be they can rate limit all GAE originated appls
> > by app id which is a very secure method since app id can't be
> > hacked ?
>
> Unfortunately this would incentivize the rest of the world to start
> *adding* GAE headers to work around maps' ratelimits.  But combined
> with knowledge of the IP pool that appengine fetches from, it's a
> great idea.
>
> BTW, a proxy is pretty trivial to set up.  And you can use it for
> other services that have rate issues as well - I've run into several.
>
> Jeff

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