[Ovmsdev] OpenChargeMap API KEY / server overload

[Mark Webb-Johnson]

Yep, we can register the App and provide an API key. I will eMail it to your privately (although it will end up in the source code anyway, or could be sniffed off the wire without too much difficulty).

Regards, Mark.

> On 2 Dec 2019, at 2:12 AM, Michael Balzer <dexter at expeedo.de> wrote:
> 
> Mark, Christopher (still with us?),
> 
> the OCM API server is currently near overload, I assume due to the https migration. 3 of 5 API requests currently fail with status 500.
> 
> I've checked the OCM forum for some info and found this related topic:
> 
> https://community.openchargemap.org/t/notice-api-will-shortly-require-an-api-key-for-regular-usage/29
> 
> Mark, do we have an OVMS account at OCM? If so, can you get an API key for us? I'm preparing the next Andriod update.
> 
> Maybe hosting an OCM mirror is also an option, but no idea about the capacity needed. An API server with https may need quite some ressources, as there are
> nearly no reusable SSL sessions. According to Google we've got 1051 active Android installations. I did implement caching and incremental updates long ago,
> every App will normally only do ~ one update call per day (if it succeeds…).
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> 
> Am 27.11.19 um 21:30 schrieb Michael Balzer:
>> Mark,
>> 
>> the OpenChargeMap API has just changed to force redirecting to the https version -- basically a good idea.
>> 
>> That broke the Android App OCM implementation: the standard Android InputStream class conveniently opens streams from URLs, but does not follow redirects.
>> 
>> I've changed all API URLs to https, should have done so before when https became available for OCM.
>> 
>> Maybe the iOS reader is smarter here, but maybe you should check that.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Michael
>> 
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