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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: 403 - Forbidden on gitweb pages
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:53:59 +0100
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On 02/14/2013 05:31 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> 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.

any chance you moved to a different browser (or a new version of it) in
that timeframe?
I can trivially reproduce that issue here now because my browser is
employing fairly agressive prefetching techniques that the currently
rate-limiting system is not prepared to deal with, and from looking at
the logs this is actually a fairly common issue :(


Stefan


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