CPC G06F 9/485 (2013.01) [G06F 9/541 (2013.01); G06F 9/547 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims |
1. A method comprising:
receiving an Application Programming Interface (API) request having originated from an Internet Protocol (IP) address;
determining a counter value based on one or more previous API requests having originated from the IP address and one or more responses that each comprise a response code indicating whether a respective previous API request originated from the IP address has resulted in an error;
in response to determining that the counter value satisfies a threshold criterion, initiating a delay in processing of the API request; and
in response to determining that the delay has completed, causing the processing of the API request to resume, wherein the processing of the API request comprises:
forwarding the API request to a resource based on a request path included in the API request;
receiving an API response from the resource in response to the API request;
transmitting the API response to the originating IP address; and
updating the one or more previous API requests having originated from the IP address based on the API response.
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