specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: AOL
providerId: aol
generated: '2026-09-02'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://api.login.aol.com/.well-known/openid-configuration and live anonymous
  responses from https://api.login.aol.com
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-02'
description: >-
  AOL publishes no rate limits for its identity API. This file replaces a
  2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold that asserted invented free/professional/
  enterprise tiers with invented per-minute and per-month numbers for a provider
  that has published none. Those numbers were never AOL's. An honest zero is the
  correct measurement here.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
headers: {}
headers_observed: []
responseCodes: {}
note: >-
  Searched AOL's OpenID Connect discovery document, its security.txt, its help
  centre and its status page for any published quota, throttle or fair-use
  statement covering api.login.aol.com — none exists. No RateLimit-*,
  X-RateLimit-* or Retry-After header was returned on any anonymous response
  observed from the identity host, including the 200 on /openid/v1/certs and the
  404 on /.well-known/api-catalog. AOL runs no developer portal where such a
  policy would normally live, so an integrator has no published runtime signal
  and no documented ceiling to design against.
evidence:
- url: https://api.login.aol.com/openid/v1/certs
  status: 200
  fetched: '2026-09-02'
  note: 200 response carried no rate-limit headers.
- url: https://api.login.aol.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
  status: 200
  fetched: '2026-09-02'
  note: Discovery document declares no rate-limit or quota metadata.
- url: https://www.aol.com/.well-known/api-catalog
  status: 404
  fetched: '2026-09-02'
tags:
- Identity
- OpenID Connect
- Rate Limiting
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
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  X: apievangelist
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