[ensembl-dev] About rate limiting and REST service

Kieron Taylor ktaylor at ebi.ac.uk
Mon May 23 16:29:10 BST 2016


Thanks Paolo, we've had two such reports today. We will investigate what is going on.

Regards,

Kieron


Kieron Taylor PhD.
Ensembl Developer

EMBL, European Bioinformatics Institute



> On 23 May 2016, at 16:04, Paolo Cozzi <paolo.cozzi at itb.cnr.it> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm writing a library to deal with ensembl REST services and by doing some test I saw that the X-RateLimit-Remaining header is always on 54999 request to do. You can try by doing two sample requests (on a Rate Limited IP address), for example:
> 
> $ curl -v 'http://rest.ensembl.org/archive/id/ENSG00000157764?' -H 'Content-type:application/json'
> 
> You will see that X-RateLimit-Reset changes over time, but X-RateLimit-Remaining is always the same.
> 
> Could you check this issue?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Paolo
> 
> 
> 
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