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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
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Subject: Re: 403 - Forbidden on gitweb pages
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> The bandaid solution was to rate limit access per ip. The error you hit is
> when you're rate limited.

[ raised eyebrow... ]  I'm fairly sure I've seen it more than once when
performing a *single* page fetch.  In any case, the probability of
failure increased by a couple orders of magnitude sometime in the past
month or so, because I'd never seen it before that.

			regards, tom lane


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