<div dir="ltr">1) What happened about 3-4 weeks ago to speed everything up? I used to click something on the web server and 3 seconds later it would pop up. Now it is almost instantaneous. Programs on the queue are running an order of magnitude faster. Thank you for whatever you did. <div>
<br></div><div>2) Unfortunately this has brought about a problem. If I bombard the web server with quick requests, I get "ERROR 403: Forbidden". </div><div> a) This was first noticed in the WPCleaner program ([[:en:WP:CLEANER]]). The program would make many calls right after another to the web server, but after the fourth or fifth call, the error message would pop up. I originally thought WPCleaner couldn't handle the web server being so fast. So, I put in a 1 second delay into the cgi program and everything worked fine.</div>
<div> b) However, WPCleaner was not the problem. If a shell script is run with 20 calls to the web server, it too would receive the error message.</div><div> c) The cgi program was a Perl program making calls to the database. Wondering if that was a problem, I tried a shell script that retrieved a very small html page. It would run longer, but it still ended up with the error.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, what is going on and can it be fixed?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Location with delay: (change id # to get a different report and do about 20 calls)</div><div><div>wget <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki_bots.cgi?limit=1000&id=002&project=enwiki&action=list">http://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki_bots.cgi?limit=1000&id=002&project=enwiki&action=list</a></div>
</div><div><div>wget <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki_bots.cgi?limit=1000&id=003&project=enwiki&action=list">http://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki_bots.cgi?limit=1000&id=003&project=enwiki&action=list</a></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Location with no delay </div><div><div>wget <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/ack.cgi?limit=1000&id=002&project=enwiki&action=list">http://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/ack.cgi?limit=1000&id=002&project=enwiki&action=list</a></div>
</div><div><div>wget <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/ack.cgi?limit=1000&id=002&project=enwiki&action=list">http://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/ack.cgi?limit=1000&id=002&project=enwiki&action=list</a></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Location of small html program: (do about 20 calls)</div><div>wget <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/abot/index.html">http://tools.wmflabs.org/abot/index.html</a> <br></div><div>wget <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/abot/index.html">http://tools.wmflabs.org/abot/index.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Bryan</div></div>