I agree with Bryce on both!

about 14 days ago this request: *[bbox=8.173,49.815,9.173,50.554] worked fine.
size 523 MB

Yesterday in the afternoon and today (at night) I always got an error. I tried 5 times each. Neither the bbox limitation of 10 sqare degrees (less than 2 sqdeg here) nor the syntax should be a problem in this request. What are the other limitations which cause an error?

Have new limitations been implemented between apr,14 and apr,28?

this worked:
way[boundary=administrative][bbox=8,48,10,52] (221655 elements)

but this didn't:
way[bbox=8,48,10,52]

???

I just tested a little smaller request than 10 square degrees with the request below (9.8 sqdeg) and ran into an Error. see the message below from http://jxapi.openstreetmap.org/xapi/admin/stats

ERROR way[boundary=administrative][bbox=8,48,10,52.9] 144 30 mins 32.909 secs

What is wrong with the request? Is there another reason for denial than the bounding box?

Thanks

Great! thanks a lot.

damn,
the third line was supposed to look like this (now, in words):
if difference(West,East)*difference(South,North) is less or equal 10 then accepted

[bbox=West,South,East,North]
if difference(West,East)*difference(South,North) > 10 --- denied
if difference(West,East)*difference(South,North) <= 10 --- accepted

Is the jxapi down at the moment?

I want to prevent denied download requests before the request is sent. How is it handled, if a bbox is too large? like this?
[bbox=West,South,East,North]
if difference(West,East)*difference(South,North) > 10 --> denied
if difference(West,East)*difference(South,North) <= 10 --> accepted

Is it planned to allow larger bboxes than 10 sqaredegrees in future?

Thanks!