Re: 403 - Forbidden on gitweb pages

On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Every so often (a few percent of the time, I think) I get "403 -
> > Forbidden" from following a link on http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/.
> > So far, a reload has always worked first time, but there's definitely
> > something fishy in there. I don't recall exactly when this started
> > happening, maybe a month or so back; it hasn't been there all along.
> >
> > Anybody else see this, or have an idea what broke?
>
> Yes, I see this also. I reported it to Magnus, who muttered something
> about Varnish possibly misbehaving, but that was the end of it.
>
>
He told me it was intentional rate limiting, applied because gitweb is so
inefficient.

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