Glastonbury Ticket Site Update - Comments
Chris Gilbert
Old Article Comments
I exported these from my old wordpress blog, so they are a bit out of date, but I thought I’d keep them around for posterity.
[James Simpson] - Yep i know this struggle too - drop me an email for a collaboration approach. Although yes, it may be the case of rate limiting, there is more of an issue with actually getting connected in the first place. Think of the mass amounts of visitors over that short space of 45 min, its like an organised DDos attack on the servers… There is only so many concurrent connections a load balancer can take and redirect, and there will be thousands of people trying to get through that load balancer every second. It may be a good way to script something (which I am at the moment) to check for a connection straight through into the server, and then open a browser window with the same cookie/session id as if you were on a browser going straight through. It’s a hard one to call without knowledge of their server setup and how their scripts are set to load up pages or who gets access or not.
[Brave Sir Robin] - Did you ever do further research or another post on this? As a Glasto devotee who’s been through the ticket day trauma too many times I’d love to know your thoughts!