[Tools-discuss] Re: Too aggressive rate limiting for mailinglist web archives inhibits normal use

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

Also, if you log in, it makes it easier for us to separate your traffic 
from the bots.

RjS

On 8/30/24 11:29 AM, Robert Sparks wrote:
> Thanks Erik -
>
> We're tuning to deal with a _massive_ botnet attack on mailarchive 
> that's well enough constructed to be difficult to separate from 
> traffic like yours. We'll adjust.
>
> RjS
>
> On 8/30/24 11:15 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been reading IETF mailing lists via the web archive for quite 
>> some
>> time now.  Since today, I experience problems created by too restrictive
>> rate limiting.  Skimming over the subjects of the emails from the last
>> few days of a list with a spurt of activity triggers the rate limit.
>>
>> This skimming uses the keyboard, i.e., I press cursor down to look at
>> the next email subject.  This automatically loads the email body as 
>> well,
>> even if I do not intend to read it.  Using the mouse to hit the 
>> invisible
>> scroll bar of the small (only 4 messages) window is quite hard for me
>> and thus not an acceptable UI.  Using the keyboard for navigation seems
>> to be the intended UI for actual use by most.
>>
>> The rate limiting shows as an addition of many "Show header" links in
>> the body of the selected email on every key press.  Only a reload of
>> the web page provides the actual error message:
>>
>>       Error 1015
>>       You are being rate limited
>>
>>       What happened?
>>       The owner of this website (mailarchive.ietf.org) has banned you
>>       temporarily from accessing this website.
>>
>>       [...]
>>
>>       [...] Performance & security by Cloudflare
>>
>> Please consider increasing the rate limit to allow normal interactive 
>> use.
>>
>> Please also consider reporting the actual rate limit and the duration
>> of the ban as part of the error message.
>>
>> Please also consider reporting the error message during normal 
>> interactive
>> use of the web page instead of only after reloading the page.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Erik
>>
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