HttpService rate limiting for localhost while in a Team Create

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#1

Reproduction Steps

Send many HttpService requests to localhost while in a Team Create.

Actual code used:

local get = HttpService:GetAsync("http://localhost:" .. getPort(), false, {Type = "Modified"})

Expected Behavior

HttpService requests to localhost shouldn’t be throttling.

Actual Behavior

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Issue Area: Studio
Issue Type: Other
Impact: Moderate
Frequency: Constantly

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#2

This is intentional behaviour.
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#3

“Roblox game server”

Either this is a bug, or a documentation error, but it would be pretty cool if localhost didn’t have any rate limits.

Edit: @SomeFedoraGuy pointed out this was in a Team Create session, which is actually run on Roblox servers. Sorry guys!

#4

“Roblox game server ” just refers to any roblox server. The 500/m limit applies to ALL http requests

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#5

AFAIK Team Create is an un-joinable live server, so if you try to repro in a place with TC off it shouldn’t happen.

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#6

Requests to localhost still work while in a Team Create meaning the requests originate from your own PC. They shouldn’t be rate limited.

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#7

Where are you running these requests? If these were via an in-game script, then it is running on the team create server. The only ones that should be running on your client are plugins and possibly the command bar.

#8

The requests come from a Studio plugin. Specifically, Lync.

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#9

Thanks for reporting! We’ll follow up when we have an update for you.

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#10

Hi - this is the expected behavior. HttpService requests are all firing from the server side. And such requests will be throttled. Currently there isn’t a special handling case for localhost requests.

And we agree the throttling limit should not apply to requests made from studio plugins, we are working on a fix now and will update here.

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