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: Statys 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.
If someone at del.icio.us could please look into this, I'd really
appreciate it since this problem will cause serious user unhappiness.
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
Feel free to try it yourself. At this point, my jerrykrinock account
seems to be inaccessible from the API. Either I get 503 (bad), or I
get 200 with no posts (very bad).
Thanks alot,
Jerry Krinock
