On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, spaetz wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:59:55AM +0200, Dirk St?cker wrote: >> Yes, that's why I would add such a bulk request. When using POST, then a >> larger number of request can be transported at once: >> - Reduce server load due to lots of requests >> - Automatically have a low priority > > While this makes sense, I am afraid > people just call the HTTP GET version for one tile 100,000 times as they do > now.
When a bulk request is avaialable, you can add a blocker for GET. e.g. No GET per IP is accepted, when there have been more than 50 request in last hour. Thus enforcing the POST variant. >> And a bit of programming/scripting is required thus reducing the misuse >> potential :-) > > Now, that's a smart idea :-) And additionally above enforcment would icrease the required skills to do bulk requests :-) Which also means there should be no ready to use end-user script for such a request, only a short documentation. I would do that integration, but sadly I'm currently unable to test that python stuff and this integration would be more testing than programming :-) Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
