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Perhaps this is related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3019783 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3019783 as an outage to fix the problem system-wide?
by shaggyfrog 15y ago
Perhaps this is related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3019783 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3019783 as an outage to fix the problem system-wide? Cross fingers.
- xsmasher 15y agoIt's probably related to a new hack that intercepts/fakes the in-app purchase calls on jailbroken phones; it allows the user to get "free" in-app purchases, but with invalid receipts. I'm sure a lot of devs weren't checking receipts and got stung by the hack. So they started verifying receipts, traffic goes through the roof, Apple's servers fail under the load.
- jen_h 15y agoBeen watching what may be the server side of this hack for the last week or so...it's not very subtle and retries obnoxiously enough to stand out/get itself blacklisted. It may also be possible that some developers' apps aren't catching duplicates or thresholding these calls and are checking receipts with each hit--that'd put a lot more load on Apple's servers, too (though I'd think the app developers would notice this change in traffic as well on their side?)?