[Tilesathome] Processing delays

[Matthias Julius]

Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> writes:

> Milenko schrieb:
>
>> Even a fairly high number like 10 or 20 would keep misbehaving clients from 
>> sucking down huge numbers of tiles.
>
> Agreed, for that you would indeed need some sort of authentication.

How about having each client generate a random ID that is submitted
with job requests and uploads? This way the server could identify each
running instance of the client and without needing authentication
information.

Of course, this would not protect against a malicious client that
generates a new ID for each request, but I don't think this is a
problem here.

Matthias