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Ask HN: Is sending a lot of requests but respecting rate limits DOSing?

2 points by SpyCoder77 a month ago · 1 comment · 1 min read


I made a tool that finds Gimkit game codes by requesting the check code endpoint with a random 6 digit integer on loop until it got a valid code or it got rate limited. If it stops when it gets rate limited, is it DOS?

gus_massa a month ago

I'm not sure of the definition, but I'd not be surprised if your IP gets banned.

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