Hey, I'm guessing it would allow some abuse. Someone would start requesting application IDs like crazy and spam the hell of the system. Once he blow up one application ID, it would just switch to another one.
Although some sort of list-of-applications-sorted-by-requests would allow a user to easily see the applications that are not behaving nicely. On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:16 PM, cpatil <cpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a reason why the rate limit is not applied to an oauth > consumer (the application) instead of the authenticating user? > It would prevent an offending application to use up the limits of a > user and allow > other applications continue to be able to service the user. > > thx/c > -- Julio Biason <julio.bia...@gmail.com> Twitter: http://twitter.com/juliobiason
