Ask HN: Why am I getting 402 Payment Required on HN?

Posted by mbmccormick on Monday June 10, 2013 @09:10PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I recently launched a Hacker News app for Windows Phone and now my API is getting 402 Payment Required from Hacker News. The API is using the exact same code as @cheeaun's http://node-hnapi.herokuapp.com. I merely cloned his API and deployed it to my own Heroku instance, to avoid using up his bandwidth.

Any idea why this is happening? I find it odd that Hacker News would be returning a 402 if they decided to block my app as opposed to 401/403.

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Re:Ask HN: Why am I getting 402 Payment Required on HN? by kogir on Monday June 10, 2013 @10:09PM (#5859128)

I killed all traffic from EC2 while dealing with a traffic spike. It's back for now, but I'd encourage you to have your client directly access the site instead of using a proxy.

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Re:Ask HN: Why am I getting 402 Payment Required on HN? by pg on Monday June 10, 2013 @09:11PM (#5858855)

If it's happening, it's a bug.

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