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Understanding and Bypassing Rate Limiting's
Introduction
When you are viewing a website and submitting several repeated requests within a short period of time, the website may ask you to fill out a captcha or may ask for extra verification. If this happens, you will need to comply with the request. This practise is referred to as “Rate Limiting.” It means that as soon as the website detects that the request may have originated from a computer bot or any other automated tool, the website will begin to limit the rate at which requests are delivered by you or your browser. This is something that can be done for a variety of reasons, including safeguarding the application resources, providing users with a good response time on the website, and occasionally protecting user accounts or users from brute-force attacks. Because these many queries can be used to explore or spider the entire website, or to abuse user logins, they should be avoided.
What is rate limiting?
If repeated requests, from either a tool or a user, are being sent to a particular endpoint, “rate limiting” is a way that can help to limit the number of successive requests made by the server. This method is known…
