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by pbhjpbhj 1000 days ago
Seems like a means to avoid DoS?
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jw1224 1000 days ago
I think it's just some networking misconfiguration they haven't noticed. I can't see them intentionally trying to prevent DoS this way, that's what API key rate limits are for (it would be a very expensive and slow DoS otherwise!).
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charcircuit 1000 days ago
>that's what API key rate limits are for

You don't need an API key to make a connection to the API.

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