Tracking IP address for quota limit purpose
Some smart users are registering with different email addresses and attaching their different API keys to their same application in order to bypass the product quota limit.They also are registering more than one application per user but I believe those applications are the same just with different point of entries.
Is their a way to identify the IP address of origin in order to block this kind of behavior?
Answer by Dino
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Apr 28, 2017 at 06:28 PM
yes, there is a variable "client.ip" which provides the client IP address.
The variables reference tells you more.
But there's no guarantee that IP address won't change also. They could go through an anonymizing proxy server.
What problem are you really trying to solve? If you enforce a quota, and there is a "Free" registration for developers and apps, then ... people who don't like the quota will just get more free developer accounts.
If you really want to restrict usage, you might consider charging people to register each new developer email address.
