generated: '2026-09-13'
method: searched
source: https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise25/gwsdk_web_services/data/b7m3i3y.html
name: Novell API rate limits
limit_count: 0
limits: []
headers: []
status_on_exhaustion: null
retry_after: false
description: >-
  No rate limits are published for either Novell API surface, and none are enforced by Novell - both APIs are
  served by software running on the customer's own hardware (the GroupWise Post Office Agent and the
  GroupWise Administration Service), so throughput is bounded by that deployment, not by a vendor quota.
  Nothing in the GroupWise 25 SDK documentation set or the Administration REST API reference mentions a
  request ceiling, a quota, a burst allowance, a 429 response or any X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit-* /
  Retry-After header. An honest zero rather than an unmeasured one.
runtime_constraints_instead:
  - name: SOAP session timeout
    value: 30 minutes idle
    note: >-
      The GroupWise SOAP session expires after 30 minutes of inactivity. getTimestampRequest with the noop
      parameter keeps it alive. This is the constraint that will actually break a long-running agent.
    source: https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise25/gwsdk_web_services/data/b7m3i3y.html
  - name: HTTP keep-alive timeout
    value: 30 minutes
    note: >-
      Independent of the session timer. Most frameworks re-establish it transparently; the docs tell
      developers to test that their application behaves correctly after a timeout.
  - name: Async job retention
    value: 60 seconds after completion (REMOVE_DELAY)
    note: >-
      Administration REST API async jobs stay queryable for 60 seconds after completing, then auto-remove.
      A poller slower than that loses the result.
    source: https://www.novell.com/documentation/developer/groupwise_sdk/gwsdk_gwadminweb/data/application.htm
  - name: Charset
    value: UTF-8 only
    note: Any other charset passed to the POA is ignored; responses are always UTF-8.
evidence:
  - url: https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise25/gwsdk_web_services/data/b7m3i3y.html
    status: 200
    note: HTTP Connections section - the only throughput-adjacent documentation on the SOAP surface.
  - url: https://www.novell.com/documentation/developer/groupwise_sdk/gwsdk_gwadminweb/data/application.htm
    status: 200
    note: Full Admin REST reference, 220 resources - no rate-limit or quota language anywhere in it.