Re: 403 - Forbidden on gitweb pages

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.

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

regards, tom lane