Bit.ly permalink not working

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Bit.ly permalink not working #35

Open ddevrien opened 5 years ago

ddevrien commented 5 years ago

2019-07-08 12:50:41,215 WARN [exec-499] SearchController | Failed to create a permalink bit.ly URL: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten?format=txt&longUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fhwbot.orgnull%3Fusername%3DMiguePR%26memManufacturerId%3D975&login=&apikey=

ddevrien commented 5 years ago

Caused by too many requests, it looks like a lot of bots are accessing the permalink URLs. As a workaround, we could try to only generate the bit.ly URL for authenticated users.

frederikcolardyn commented 5 years ago

I'd just remove this functionality. Business value is rather low.