Graham Binns <[email protected]> writes: > 2009/9/20 Max Bowsher <[email protected]>: >> The obvious followup question, then, is: Why is this treated any >> differently to someone abusively screenscraping information from >> Launchpad webpages? > > The only way it's treated any differently is that we can cut a > particular user off if they're abusing the API, whereas we have to > block at the IP level for screen-scrapers, which is a bit of a blunter > tool.
...IOW, if we *had* a way to fine-grainedly filter screenscrapers, we'd do that too :-). We can't -- but that's no reason to settle for less where we can do better. I hasten to add that "abusing" is not a term of intent. The person might not realize that their use causes a problem, and the problem could be due to a bug in Launchpad rather than anything inherently high-load about the use. Nevertheless, being able to stop the problem surgically while we fix it is still handy. -Karl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
