[ensembl-dev] About rate limiting and REST service

Paolo Cozzi paolo.cozzi at itb.cnr.it
Tue May 24 09:14:40 BST 2016


Hi Kieron,

Now it seems to work correctly. Thank you for your support.

Regards,

Paolo


Il 23/05/2016 18:30, Kieron Taylor ha scritto:
> Hi Paolo,
>
> We've discovered a misconfiguration in our servers affecting rest.ensembl.org, which is now fixed. X-RateLimit-Reset should now decrement as you expect. Thank you for trying to respect our limits!
>
> Do let us know if you have other problems with the REST server.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kieron
>
>
> Kieron Taylor PhD.
> Ensembl Developer
>
> EMBL, European Bioinformatics Institute
>
>
>
>
>
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>> On 23 May 2016, at 16:29, Kieron Taylor <ktaylor at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> 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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