FishText Account suspended due to rapid connections

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I have had my Fishtext account suspended several times now. Fishtext support 
told me that it's because of rapid connections, disconnects and re-connections 
to it. It must be something the WebSMS or Fishtext adapter are doing. 

Using WebSMS v4.2.1 on Android v2.3.3, HTC Sense 2.1, Kernel Version 
2.6.35.10-g2ee27f5, on HTC Desire S. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by igor.g...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2011 at 2:15

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Original comment by f...@ub0r.de on 3 Dec 2011 at 8:21

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This is strange.

Assuming you do not change any settings, the connector should use the following 
requests:
* 1 to check if you are logged in
* if not logged in, a further 2 requests - 1 to do the login and 1 to then 
update the balance once logged in
* 1 to update the balance if logged in and you press the refresh button on the 
send sms page to update your connector balances
* When checking login if you have changed the "attempt send for free" setting 
on the fishtext preferences menu, then 2 requests will be made = 1 to load the 
current settings from fishtext, and another to update them.
* To do a send message, the login will be once again checked, then 2 requests 
are made to send 1 to load the send message page, 1 to submit the send sms 
request. Finally, after a successful send the balance is updated by one further 
request.

Sending to multiple recipients or sending long sms messages do not result in 
additional requests.

So, for a normal scenario of opening the app when not logged in (or login 
expired), then sending a text, there should be just 3 requests made to ensure 
you're logged in, and then an additional 4 requests made for each message sent. 
If you change the "attempt send for free" option, that would result in 2 
further requests as a once-off, next time you send. 

Unless there is a bug that is causing some weird http behaviour, I don't see 
how the above could be causing fishtext to suspend your account. Further, since 
we are just doing http conversations, I'm not sure what they mean by 
"disconnects and re-connections".

Could you please ask fishtext for more details on what exactly they are 
considering to be "rapid connections"  and what they mean by "disconnects and 
re-connects"?

There's a lot of people using this connector, so I'm surprised no one else has 
had this problem, unless fishtext have changed something recently on their 
backend.

Original comment by fint...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2011 at 11:22

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