[ckan-discuss] Fwd: [open-science] feedback on CKAN: voting broken?

Fri May 21 10:20:02 BST 2010

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From: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
Date: 21 May 2010 10:18
Subject: Re: [open-science] feedback on CKAN: voting broken?
To: Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen at gmail.com>
Cc: open-science <open-science at lists.okfn.org>
See below for some info about potential for abuse of the rating system
in its present form (due to GET request nature). To avoid this going
forward I think we should restrict package rating to logged in users.

Does this sound sensible or is it important to have continue to allow
rating of packages by non-logged in users?

Rufus

On 21 May 2010 10:09, Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> first my congratulations on the new release!
>
> I was browsing around a bit, fixing some details of some data sets,
> and noted that I could not vote... I get a message:
>
> "You don't have permission to access /package/rate/bodr on this server."
>
> Can this please be verified?

Egon, we have temporarily had to shut off the rate functionality due
to a bot problem (basically package/rate is currently allowing GET
requests and the bot was not respecting nofollow and making a *lot* of
requests per sec).

We're looking to fix this problem but in the mean time we've
re-enabled rating so please rate away ...

Rufus