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Inspect request throttling explained

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Add-Ons

If you haven"t already heard among the throngs of vuvuzela-esque cries of "Gearscore is dead," Blizzard has decided to add a throttling time limitation to inspect requests that some addons use to quickly check to see what a character has equipped and what class that character is. The most notorious addons that use these inspection requests are "mouseover" addons that pull data about a character into a tooltip and Gearscore.

There have been a lot of misconceptions about Blizzard"s change, so it would be beneficial to clear those misconceptions up.

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WoW.comInspect request throttling explained originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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