[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Request for Change of UserAgent

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Richard,

I don't think without more information it's clear precisely what QGIS 
should change to help them?

Indeed, personally I'm still not sure what the current problem is for 
them. I get that they have some over-users of their service and need to 
curtail this (a very tricky problem), but what's their current solution 
and how does a user-agent change help it?

I'd suggest against QGIS using different user-agents for destinations as 
was suggested earlier in the thread because down that road lies madness 
(it's a highly opaque thing that /will/ bite people as they try and 
debug issues).

Cheers,

Jonathan


On 23/02/2019 11:17, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> For what I understand, they use some cookie-based trick to help maintain
> their QOS (and then to make it possible to throttle a very demanding web
> application?).
>
> This made sense to me. Also because I really do not envy maintainers of
> such services: it is hard to keep up such free services (as an example
> (see irc log) he mentioned that certain transportation software started
> to poll the reverse geocoding every second in every car). I think it's
> pretty important for us to have OSM, and be helpfull to them.
> But if Firefishy/Grant is willing to give more details (he is in bcc)
> that would be great.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
>
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