generated: '2026-09-01'
method: derived
source: derived by API Evangelist from apis.yml and live probes of UOW hosts; UOW publishes no document of this kind
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: University of Wollongong
providerId: university-of-wollongong
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Rate Limiting
description: >-
  University of Wollongong publishes no rate-limit documentation, because it publishes no API. No
  OAI-PMH or IIIF endpoint operated by UOW could be confirmed in the 2026-09-01 pass — the earlier
  claim of an OAI-PMH base at ro.uow.edu.au/do/oai/ was a bepress path that did not survive the
  repository's migration to Figshare, and the host now answers every anonymous request with an AWS
  WAF challenge (HTTP 202). The practical limits a client meets on UOW hosts are access controls,
  not throttles: HTTP 403 on courses.uow.edu.au/api and scholars.uow.edu.au/api, HTTP 202 WAF
  challenge on ro.uow.edu.au, and a TCP timeout on api.uow.edu.au.
notes: >-
  No published limit exists to record. Where a vendor tenancy (Figshare, Symplectic, Ex Libris)
  imposes limits, those are the vendor's and are documented on the vendor's own developer site.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-wollongong/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default
  scope: client
  metric: requests-per-minute
  limit: not published
  notes: >-
    No global limit is published by UOW and no UOW-operated endpoint returned a 429 or any
    RateLimit/Retry-After header during probing.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Exponential backoff with jitter; honor Retry-After; harvest during off-peak hours.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com