I agree Tom and am in the process of doing that. I guess my biggest question could be rephrased as:
After switching to OAuth will my extended rate limits automatically apply to OAuth requests from the same user/IP? Matt On Aug 13, 2:50 pm, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu> wrote: > On 8/13/10 8:08 PM, Matt Trinneer wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > I'm curious to understand how the transition to OAuth will take place > > for whitelisted accounts. Currently I have 2 streaming accounts, > > which if I understand correctly will not be impacted at all, and a > > whitelisted basic auth access (20k/hour) for a specific set of IPs. > > > I've read that the Basic Auth rate limit will decrease by 10 calls a > > day for 15 days until it's finally turned off for good. Is this still > > true? If so, how the decrease apply to the extended 20k/hour rate > > limit? Will it see a corresponding 6.6% (1320 call) reduction every > > day during the same period? > > > Also, in order to have the extended rate limit I currently have > > available to my new OAuth application, is there anything I need to > > do? Or does the fact that the new OAuth application was registered > > under the same username and requests originate from ip combination > > automatically transfer the limits? > > > Thanks for any insight you can offer. > > > Matt > > Hi Matt, > > I would like to point out that I think that you should stop worrying > about the Basic Auth rate limiting and simply implement OAuth. It's > about time that you do so anyway. > > Your extended limit is IP-based and does not care about the type you use > - basic or OAuth. > > Tom
