[Bioperl-l] Problem When searching PubMed

[Chris Fields]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

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> On Dec 18, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Chris Fields wrote:
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>> Note that this calls the server over and over with a timeout in  
>> between; I would highly recommend NOT retrieving 100000 records at  
>> NCBI peak use times
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> NCBI may (and in the past has) also block your IP if you do that. Be  
> nice to them, they're providing a great service.
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> 	-hilmar
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They are usually forgiving when we go with the 3s timeout.  I have  
thought about implementing something for EUtilities that uses  
localtime to determine when the request is sent and scale the timeout  
longer if it is at peak times (for this very reason, i.e. don't abuse  
the server).

chris