[horde] Excessive Weather API calls

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Simon Wilson <simon at simonandkate.net>:

> I was using wunderground for weather information on the Horde  
> portal, but kept getting pinged by them for excess usage (over 500  
> calls per day). We tried resetting the API key in case it had been  
> compromised, but that did not reduce the calls, so it was my Horde  
> system that was calling it. This was during a period when we were  
> all away and no-one was actually logged into the system at all -  
> other than via AS connections.
>
> As I was running out of raindrops (their credit system for over-use)  
> I swapped today to use worldweatheronline, registering for a key. In  
> just over 6 hours, almost 300 calls have been made. This is despite  
> the fact that I only had the Horde portal open when I was testing  
> it... and even then it is set to refresh once per hour only. I might  
> have called it 5 or 6 times whilst testing it.
>
> Something appears to be triggering weather API calls on a far more  
> regular basis than should be the case...
>
> free v1 search.ashx	275	(98%)
> free v1 weather.ashx	5	(2%)
>
> The only thing that happens that regularly on my Horde system is AS  
> activity...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Simon
>
> --
> Simon Wilson
> M: 0400 12 11 16

Besides that those calls should theoretically be cached, any chance  
that you have the weather forecast included in your calendar?
-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/