How to fix DAVx5 / instant upload HTTP 429 and "too many requests" issues

[jdaviescoates]

It took me a while to reconfigure my phone apps after updating my Nextcloud to the new OIDC package... and because of that there were loads of unsuccessful login requests from my home IP to my Nextcloud, and because of that Nextcloud was blocking/ throttling me, and therefore my calendar and contacts wouldn't sync and I was having issues with auto/ instant upload stuff too.

Doing this via the Web Terminal of the app seems to have fixed the issues :

sudo -u www-data php /app/code/occ security:bruteforce:reset my.ip.address.here

Solution found here https://help.nextcloud.com/t/cannot-login-too-many-requests/100905/28

[jdaviescoates]

Update: I just started getting the same problems again. Doing the above fixed it again but odd that it keeps happening I need to find a more permanent solution...

[robi]

Seems like the apps are too aggressive or the NC is too sensitive or awkward in handling it.

[jdaviescoates]

I think what's probably happening is that the Nextcloud and DAVx5 apps on my wife's phone haven't been updated since Nextcloud moved to OIDC and so are constantly doing failed login attempts... shall investigate tomorrow...

[jdaviescoates]

@jdaviescoates well, we re-authed all (afaict) the Nextcloud-related apps on my wife phone now too...

But when just logging out of Nextcloud to test something I saw this:

And, yep, just checked my phone and lo and behold there are a couple of 18 Upload failed Too Many Requests notifications

[jdaviescoates]

Aha! I guess I should've actually looked into my Nextcloud logs before

Just had a look and saw a load of errors with this:

"userAgent":"Evolution/3.52.3" - that's not a phone, that's my laptop!

I've just deleted and re-added my Nextcloud account via Ubuntu's Online Accounts (had to create an app password for it). Hopefully that'll finally be the end of this nonsense!