Rate limit download requests per user

17551
Reporter: trobertson
Assignee: fmendez
Type: Improvement
Summary: Rate limit download requests per user
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2015-04-21 09:42:48.14
Updated: 2016-01-29 17:06:33.201
        
Description: The rOpenSci folks are receiving a lot of requests for the download API to be part of their library.  Scott C. coded this, but we asked them to disable it as it allows a user to effectively do:
{code}
for (int i=0; i
    

Author: mblissett
Created: 2016-01-29 17:06:33.201
Updated: 2016-01-29 17:06:33.201
        
A user limit looks to be implemented, but not the IP address limit, or an override for particular users.

PF-2324 requests a bit more information for the user when they've been rate limited.