Thanks for letting us know about this. That's quite alarming, though
it doesn't seem to have been endemic.
There are three things to try if it happens again that will help us
debug the issue:
1) Try accessing posts/all at the following hosts:
https://s19.del.re4.yahoo.net
https://s46.del.re4.yahoo.net
https://fe03.del.re4.yahoo.net
https://fe06.del.re4.yahoo.net
(you'll need to disable certificate checking in curl to do it)
This'll let us know if one of the clusters is having problems.
2) Try accessing it from a web browser rather than curl, just in case
there's a problem with the authentication.
3) Try saving an item in your account. There shouldn't be any caching
going on, but if there is, it should reset it.
Hopefully that'll help us figure out what could be going wrong here.
Regards,
Toby Elliott
del.icio.us
On Oct 6, 2007, at 11:51 AM, jerrykrinock wrote:
> [Slight update of previous message which, it seems, did not post
> for some reason]
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a del.icio.us account with four posts in it that I am using
> for testing my application.
> This morning I sent the API https:/api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all
> several times within 10
> minutes or so.
>
> EXPECTED RESULT: Status 503 "Temporarily Unavailable"
>
> ACTUAL RESULT: Status "OK" with 0 posts in it. Eeek!!!!
>
>; After about 10 minutes of head-scratching, and getting the same
> result with curl, I
> switched to testing a different del.icio.us account. It downloaded
> my 1 post in that
>; account properly, and after several repeats I began getting 503
> errors as expected. Then I
> switched back to the original account, but at that point I got the
> 503 errors as expected
> there too.
>;
> But it did not stay fixed. I have a 503 recovery algorithm in my
> application which at first
> retries in 5 seconds, then retries in 5*1.77 seconds, then retries
> in 5*1.77*1.77 seconds,
> etc. I let it retry about 9 times, so it got up to 69 seconds
> backoff. At that point I got the
> bad result, status 200 with 0 posts again, several times. So I went
> to a swim workout and
> after returning 3 hours later, now I find that it works properly,
> giving my four posts.
>
> If someone at del.icio.us could please look into this, I'd really
> appreciate it since this
>; problem will cause serious user unhappiness. I'll be happy to help
> in any way I can with
>; testing; let me know.
>
> Here's a screenshot of the Safari window showing my posts on
> del.icio.us, the 200 output
> with no posts from curl in a Terminal window, and the file written
> by curl showing the
> headers:
>
>; sheepsystems.com/engineering/del200.png
>
>; Thanks alot,
>
> Jerry Krinock
>
>
>
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