Re: 403 - Forbidden on gitweb pages

On Feb 14, 2013 5:31 AM, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)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.

In that case you may be hitting a different issue, and we're writing it off
as the rare limiting by mistake. Because nothing about that one has changed
for quite some time, and should never hit on a single page. Will have to
investigate that further then.

/Magnus