freelawproject / courtlistener

A fully-searchable and accessible archive of court data including growing repositories of opinions, oral arguments, judges, judicial financial records, and federal filings.
https://www.courtlistener.com
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Faster site means more people getting ID'ed as bots #2876

Closed mlissner closed 1 year ago

mlissner commented 1 year ago

All the work we've done to move the site to async seems to be having an amusing (?) result: More people being I.D.'ed as bots. I need to loosen the Web Application Firewall in AWS (WAF).

cc: @ttys0dev

mlissner commented 1 year ago

Actually, it could be other ratelimiters, not the WAF. I asked the user experiencing this to send a screenshot.

ttys0dev commented 1 year ago

All the work we've done to move the site to async seems to be having an amusing (?) result: More people being I.D.'ed as bots.

Maybe the site was just too slow to respond requests to even trigger a rate limit previously?

mlissner commented 1 year ago

Yep. That's my theory.

mlissner commented 1 year ago

Hm, fewer complaints about this. Maybe it's fine. Setting this aside for now.