Submit changes button often failing about phedex HOT 5 OPEN

Could you provide information:

• Error message
• Time when it happened
• Request Id

If this is a load related error, we need to find out where is the bottleneck.

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you can try to create a transfer of any dataset to 15 sites, and disapprove all of them at once. This will fail, I guarantee it

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I just tried to approve all pending for
https://cmsweb.cern.ch/phedex/prod/Request::View?request=1097871

and got

"""
Apologies, looks like we have an internal server error, details of which below. If the problem persists, please submit a bug report.

Error time=2017-09-11 10:23:56 UTC id=4525e0d67b4c2004d6ce584fddf59b78
"""

several times

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Hi, thanks for the timestamp, it was helpful. I don't have approval rights and would not be able to try myself.

Anyway, I tracked this down to this error in the server log:
2017-09-11 10:23:56 UTC: error: id=4525e0d67b4c2004d6ce584fddf59b78 Error evaluating client identity at /data/srv/beHG1707d/sw/slc7_amd64_gcc630/cms/PHEDEX-datasvc/2.3.24/perl_lib/PHEDEX/Web/API/UpdateRequest.pm line 116.\n at /data/srv/state/phedex/htdocs/WebSite/access25 line 4356.

Investigating further I found this to be a sort of safety feature introduced 5 years ago:
80fee7f
which prevents ( on the authentication level) the approval of more than 10 node requests at a time.

In principle this makes sense, because once approved, it is not possible to undo the deletions!

Since the request in question is fully approved now, I assume you eventually succeeded after trying a few times. If this is the case (please confirm) , I see several options:
A) leave this feature as a precaution, but document it and produce a meaningful error.
B) Increase the limit to whatever seems practical to you
C) disable the feature

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would be great to understand why this was introduced.
experiementally the limit is not at 10, but 2-3ish.
this is very unpractical

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