You should just tell me what your IP is so i can ban you, so we can get it over with..
Seems like a much better option

I'm sorry but this website is breaking some rules in one form or another since I just created a new Corporation yesterday on an alt and it's already showing up on the website, I have never given my API away and I have never conducted any sort of PvP with that character so the information is not coming from random killboard information.

This should be illegal !

How about this for an idea, NO API INFO without a valid KEY. Period. NOTHING; absolutely ZERO output.

If they have a valid reason to query the API, they would have a key.

I can't speak in certain terms, as the plans aren't done at this point. But does it make sense to me? Yes.

That said, you trying to get the EVSCO API banned by CCP, wouldn't be in anyones interest, since without it - EVE-KILL wouldn't recieve any mails via the API.

At which point, you hunting Squizz around ingame will be the least of your troubles :D

this is how it should be

thats not how it can or should work,
there are information that *need* to be public available which will lead to some things exposed - for once that is the ID to name conversion.

if i have the name "Peter Powers" and i want to display the character portrait for example i need to be able to find the ID 179004085 somehow, otherwise i cannot show character pictures in my application.

Now for some use cases that might sound irrelevant, but if i have a software like a killboard for example, i really want those portraits there.

something similar goes for corporations, to display the logo of a corporation, i need to be able to retrieve the corporation information, since those contain the data needed to display the logo (or the corp description, or the ceo's name, or any other random public information).

Without all those information you end up with pretty horrible looking third party tools that have a horrible usability,
rather than the rich and colorfull environment of tools and ideas put to tools you have nowadays.

And honestly,
let me assure you that the API exposes no intel with any real meaning without a proper API key; and that eve-who, as nice as it is has a pretty limited set of data available compared to what some alliances / corps have in tools that dont even use the EVE API.

Scraping through characterIDs hoping to hit a valid one is NOT allowed. Doing so will get your IP blocked from the API. But if you do valid calls because you know it's a valid ID is fine. But generating excess errors will get your IP blocked.

Bahaha
So grow up. It's not going to change now. Best thing you can do is go change all your API keys.

By the way I find it interesting that it is illegal to list NPC corp members but not player corps.

Ummm no. As I said earlier I have a character who has never done anything. No information was "posted publically" at all.

The fact that the API calls confirm or refute the existence of a character based on a random charID suggests you're running damage control here Spitfire. I would strongly suggest you don't.

Any system which confirms or refutes the existence of a user (or character) based on the user (char) ID and no key/pw is broken.

Simple as.

Bahaha I love how this website gets the rage thread, but I didn't get any when I released my earlier version of the same thing a couple months ago (EVE Central Intelligence)

I know he's not scraping the API with random guesses so you can all stop bitching about that (you'd be amazed how fast the CCP API folks can go get that banhammer). He's in bed with EVSCO / eve-kill, so he gets every character name from every kill that goes through there, and probably also uses the API keys eve-kill users have given to get names from wallet transactions. In addition, the new RSS feed for the forums makes it easy to scrape those too.

So it's not against CCP regulations. But it's definitely an abuse of the API keys people have trusted to EVSCO / eve-kill.

After building an initial database it's quite the chain effect, you can see every corp the characters have been in, then see the CEO's of each of those corps, then see the corps that those CEO's have been in, and so on. All chat logs are automatically saved, so he can process those (just stay logged in while sitting in Jita and the noob systems).

So grow up. It's not going to change now. Best thing you can do is go change all your API keys.

I suggest EVERYBODY makes at least 1 call that generates an error using EVSCO API proxy cache :)

You might even be providing your own Char ID with the request

1. You enter the name in that site
2. it cross checks the name with something like http://eveolution.de/portrait.php?user=miilla
3. the jpegs have your charID in the name ...
4 ...
5. Rage at CCP

All this MAYBE ingame, so what, if they want it IN GAME, they can LOG IN to the game and PLAY THE GAME.

Not automate it, that is something we are always told, CCP want people to LOG INTO the game to PLAY THE GAME to get info etc.