[iRail] 100k requests by unknown java user agent

Thu Dec 15 05:49:36 UTC 2011

This is important because we've already been contacted in the past by NMBS because of the amount of requests we sent to them.

We need a valid explanation and a sudden 100+% increase of requests is not something they can easily cope with -- we are basically DoSing them.

Thanks. 

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Yeri Tiete
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On 15 Dec 2011, at 00:32, Pieter Colpaert wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> today someone did over 100.000 requests on our server with user-agent Java6. 
> 
> http://api.irail.be/stats/general.php?filter=java
> 
> As this client is just looking over all connections every X minutes, I think it might be easier if you just use a static data dump. If you know who's running this program, would you be able to contact me?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Pieter
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