On Mon, 04 May 2015 14:40:36 +0200, Stewart Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I've lately been seeing this error page when I try to access the W3C
markup validation service:
"Access to this resource is denied due to abuse from your IP address."
The message is linked to this page
http://www.w3.org/Help/abuse-info/re-reqs.html
which includes the statement "Specifically, we received at least 500
requests for the same resource (URI) from your IP address within a
ten-minute time interval."
It's true that I have a homemade program that makes automated requests
to the validator. But this program always waits at least 5 seconds
between successive requests, so can't possibly be making 500 or more
requests in the space of 10 minutes. The last two times (several days
apart) that I've tried to run my program it has failed and, when I open
the URL it tried to access in my web browser, I get the aforementioned
error page. Normal access to the validation service through my web
browser sometimes works and sometimes gives the same error page.
I'd like to know why I've been blocked despite being within the limit of
500 requests in 10 minutes, and what I can do about it.
Thanks in advance,
Stewart.
Hello Stewart,
Thank you for writing. I'll talk with the right people internally and
we'll get back to you.
Best regards,
Coralie
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Coralie Mercier - W3C Marketing & Communications - http://www.w3.org
mailto:[email protected] +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/
