In addition, I'd like to point out that the iPhone apps currently not working because of this have been downloaded by *millions* of users, not a few thousands... And these companies are now in hot waters as there is absolutely nothing that can be done other than submitting a new app to Apple. Since as I mentioned it usually takes WEEKS to have iPhone apps approved by Apple this is a major disaster.
Pamela, why don't you have someone look at how many "610" errors have been sent the last 24 hours to clients that have the text "Darwin" in the browser user agent string? These are the iPhone users. This will give you an idea of how bad the issue is. Considering that (1) on August 13th you stated this change was not happening anymore, and that (2) there is really no API key that can be used by iPhone users when making direct requests (and non documentation/guidance whatsoever on how to proceed with iPhones), we strongly believe this choice to implement the change, out-of-the-blue without any consideration of the devastating side-effects was a very, very poor choice. As a side-note, our apps show Google maps with the incorrect addresses when searches fail, so this looks bad for google's image as well in addition to making us look terrible. Roberto On Oct 19, 11:19 am, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 18, 1:10 pm, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > But there is no referer for HTTP requests, so there is nothing for a > key to validate against. Any abuse is linked to the account in the > key, which may be spoofed; so there is no security there either. > > I'm afraid this seems to be badly thought through (at best); and the > implementation is disastrous, especially since the last word on it > prior to making the change was "We won't be doing it". As Roberto has > indicated, most apps have some sort of lead time between development > and implementation. > > I fail to see the rationale in making the change. What am I missing? > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
