In the past there were mixed conditions on whether you'd be evaluated under IP-based limits when a method wasn't expecting authentication (yet was being presented with it). These were bugs and it took us awhile to fix them.
Passing authentication to the API is saying "I'm doing this on behalf of a user" and thus it will be considered under a user's rate limit. Our docs right now don't have the best wiggle room in delineating the difference between "requiring auth" and "supporting auth" -- most Twitter API resources support auth, even if they don't require them. The only reliable way to be considered under an IP-based limit is to make a request without any kind of authentication. So if there's a specific mix of rate limiting scenarios you're trying to navigate, just be explicit about using auth or not. Taylor On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Gautam Mr <[email protected]> wrote: > Its my bad. Found it. > > BTW, if I use user authentication to call showStatus it uses Users rate > limit. > And if I don't use authentication it uses from ip limit. > > But as per documentation <http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting#rest>it > should be using from ip limit. Anyone else is aware of this? > > Thanks > Gautam > > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gautam Mr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a question regarding ip based rate limiting. As per documentation >> all those api that does not require authentication falls under ip based >> limit which is 150. >> >> Is there a way to find what is the remaining number of hits available >> while making an api call (that does not require authentication)? Also is >> there a way to find out what is the next reset time. >> There are option available to find these limits while doing home timeline >> query or user timeline queries (apis that needs authentication). But could >> not find anything while doing a lookup on a status using >> http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/show/:id. >> >> Would appreciate your help. >> >> Thanks >> Gautam >> > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
