To clarify are rate limits applying to all api requests or only ones that
hit the backend (i.e. Do cached api responses served by varnish count?)

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Brian

On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 12:25 PM Jonathan Tweed via Wikitech-l <
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> On Mon, 2 Mar 2026 at 18:41, Tenshi H <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday, March 2nd, 2026 at 5:25 PM, Jonathan Tweed via Wikitech-l
> [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > If tools are running on WMCS, this will exempt you from the limits
> > even when using OAuth 1.0.
> >
> > For tools outside WMCS, OAuth 1.0 consumers will work as long as you
> > also send cookies as this will include a JWT cookie in the request
> > that we can validate in place of an OAuth 2.0 access token.
> >
> >
> > Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits#Caveats says however that "OAuth 1 access
> tokens are not supported by the rate limit infrastructure. Requests using
> OAuth 1 tokens will be treated as unauthenticated with respect to rate
> limiting." Which is what's going to happen?
>
> They are not supported on their own, but we are about to deploy a
> change that will generate a JWT cookie when you use bot passwords or
> OAuth 1. If this cookie is then sent alongside the OAuth 1 token, the
> request will be treated as authenticated. These are T417833 and
> T415007 in Phabricator and will be deployed over the next couple of
> weeks.
>
> You are right, that page isn't as clear as it could be. I will update,
> thanks!
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