[Tilesathome] Request Priorities now sent to the client

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, spaetz wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:59:55AM +0200, Dirk St?cker wrote:
>> Yes, that's why I would add such a bulk request. When using POST, then a
>> larger number of request can be transported at once:
>> - Reduce server load due to lots of requests
>> - Automatically have a low priority
>
> While this makes sense, I am afraid
> people just call the HTTP GET version for one tile 100,000 times as they do now.

When a bulk request is avaialable, you can add a blocker for GET. e.g. No 
GET per IP is accepted, when there have been more than 50 request in last 
hour. Thus enforcing the POST variant.

>> And a bit of programming/scripting is required thus reducing the misuse
>> potential :-)
>
> Now, that's a smart idea :-)

And additionally above enforcment would icrease the required skills to do 
bulk requests :-) Which also means there should be no ready to use 
end-user script for such a request, only a short documentation.

I would do that integration, but sadly I'm currently unable to test that 
python stuff and this integration would be more testing than programming :-)

Ciao
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