Re: 403 - Forbidden on gitweb pages

On 02/15/2013 12:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
>> On 02/14/2013 05:31 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> [ 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 :(
>
> Hm. I usually use Apple's Safari, which is currently at 6.0.2, and
> it looks like I installed that update at the beginning of November.
> It's possible they instituted aggressive prefetching in the 6.0.1 to
> 6.0.2 update, but somehow I doubt that.

hm ok...

>
> Would it make sense to just back off the rate limiting a bit?

done that for now until we have a better solution - lets see if it
behaves better now.

Stefan