Page view limit exceeded why?

April 21, 2008 12:05 AM

This page (a website for public domain scores) tells me that my daily allotment of download page visits (2 per day per IP, I imagine) has been exceeded the first time I go to one of those pages.

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.14 on OS X 10.5.1. I mostly want to know if it is browser behavior, such as pre-caching of pages. I don't think any other problem is within my power to resolve.

An additional note is that this page has worked for me before, but not for about a week. I'm not sure if this coincides with an update or not.

posted by invitapriore to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

The site sets a cookie which counts (wrongly? it didn't seem right to me) how many download pages you've visited. If you delete all cookies relating to the domain sheetmusicarchive.net, you'll be able to visit the download pages again. Of course, it would be uncool to abuse this facility.
posted by beniamino at 12:24 AM on April 21, 2008

I tried it in IE and FF. It only lets you visit download page not 2. Its cookie based not IP based though so just deleting that cookie allows you to visit more pages.
posted by missmagenta at 2:46 AM on April 21, 2008

Are you using a proxy? That & NAT can lead to false matches.
posted by Pronoiac at 11:31 PM on April 26, 2008