Postmill rate limit.

[afourney]

We're hitting a rate limit when testing the Postmill/reddit questions. Is there a way to disable this?

[shuyanzhou]

@robert1003 can you explain how to reset the rate limit for trust users?

cc. @frankxu2004

[frankxu2004]

Hi @afourney thank you for your interest. We are trying to update a new version of the postmill image by fixing some issues here, but to temporarily fix it:

Go inside the postmill docker, and make 'MarvelsGrantMan136' user a trusted user: UPDATE users SET trusted = true WHERE username = 'MarvelsGrantMan136';. Non-trusted user can only make 3 posts per hour while trusted user can make 15 posts per five minutes.

Hope it helps! If you want to try out the new version (not yet finalized but has several fixes inside already), you could download the tar image here: https://github.com/web-arena-x/webarena/issues/82#issuecomment-1873150016

[frankxu2004]

As for resetting the rate limit, I think the simplest way is to reset the whole docker container with the provided image, and apply the above fix.

[frankxu2004]

Actually to kill the rate limit completely, there's a hack. We left the website mostly as-is for it to mimic real websites as much as possible (e.g. real websites usually have anti-spam or anti-bot mechanism).

Nonetheless, if you think this is too much of a hassle, then go inside the docker for postmill, find source code for the website:

src/DataObject/CommentData.php and src/DataObject/SubmissionData.php and possibly src/DataObject/UserData.php

Delete all those decorators starting with @RateLimit(period=.....

Restart the docker container to reload the php code.

[afourney]

Fantastic. Thanks!