[MOBY-dev] Large amounts of requests from always the same IPaddress - 137.82.67.190

[Björn Usadel]

Actually,

I interpreted it the same way, so I always send back a serviceNote 
either 700_OK or whatever I consider the main error is at that moment.

However, I guess this should be ok, if only the mobyData block is 
evaluated. Since exception and notes are decoupled from the data block. 
A problem might rather be the statement that "the same" data block is 
returned, since IMHO there would be different ways to write the same 
message, but I guess this is covered by keepAlive.

I generally think it is a good idea, to test service availability and 
would even support to go further as to supply input/output pairs. Since 
I can figure out if a service is alive but not if I get back what I 
expected (e.g. always an empty data block)


The API description is here:
"There must be as many mobyData response elements as there were mobyData 
input elements (if a service can not respond to a specific query for 
whatever reason, this element may be empty!)"

http://biomoby.open-bio.org/CVS_CONTENT/moby-live/Docs/MOBY-S_API/OutputMessage.html

Cheers,
Björn

Martin Senger wrote:
>> It returns an empty mobyData block but because it fails the input 
>> validation step - the service is not expecting an empty input mobyData 
>> bloc,so it returns in the service note the exception code, 201 - 
>> "INPUTS_INVALID"
>>
>    See, Mark? It seems that I am not the only one who did not know that
> this is part of the API :-)
> 
>    Martin
> 

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