12:51 p.m.
Hello folks,
The UK federation team have discovered that a pyFF deployment is making a large number of
metadata aggregate downloads from our Metadata Publication Service. In August,
34.74.200.81 made over 3,000 gzipped downloads of our metadata, downloading 36GB of
metadata. As we update metdadata once per day, this deployment is clearly downloading
excessively.
The IP address 34.74.200.81 is somewhere in Google cloud
(81.200.74.34.bc.googleusercontent.com.) and the user agent string is pyFF/1.0.1. Is this
anyone's deployment?
We also recommend that metadata downloaders make use of the conditional GET. Is it
possible to configure pyFF to do conditional GET for metadata downloads?
Thanks,
Alex
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Alex Stuart, Principal technical support specialist (UK federation)
alex.stuart at jisc.ac.uk
UK federation helpdesk: service at ukfederation.org.uk
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