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Hi Chris Draycott,

I am working on a project for a class.  I attempted to download bookmark
data as a JSON feed.  I received the same error as described in this thread.
The response I received from the url was the following:

<!-- fe03.feeds.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Thu Apr 30 16:10:03
PDT 2009 -->

I verified that my code works with other feeds.  So, I guess the problem
others experienced has reappeared.  If you could help me with this, I would
greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

progmanos

--- In ydn-delicious@..., "chris_draycott" <draycott@...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> This server was having some problems it seems, so we've removed it. Things should be back to normal. Apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks for reporting it.
>
> Chris
> --- In ydn-delicious@..., Luis de la Rosa <luis@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I looked into this and it does indeed happen with "posts/update".  It  
> > is still happening frequently.
> >
> > It seems to just return most of the time:
> >
> > <!-- fe07.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Mon Mar  9  
> > 14:31:53 PDT 2009 -->
> >
> > Also it does not seem to be returning a 500 error when it does this.
> >
> > This confirms what Jerry found previously.
> >
> > It appears that the only reliable way to get around this is to call  
> > "posts/update" and then try again soon afterwards.  If you back off  
> > for another 30 minutes, then you will likely get this problem again.
> >
> > This is affecting the users of my app WebnoteHappy.  I could issue a  
> > fix that calls "posts/update" twice in quick succession, but this does  
> > not seem like a good long term solution.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Louie
> > Happy Apps
> >
> > On Mar 5, 2009, at 12:39 PM, chris_draycott wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Looks like there might be some problems on our side here.
> > > In the case where you get no xml response back you should be getting  
> > > an HTTP response code of 500, but I agree that is not ideal (some  
> > > xml that you can see and parse would be much better). We're working  
> > > on changing that.
> > >
> > > In addition, we've ironed out some other issues and while you still  
> > > might get this empty response, it should be much less frequent now.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > --- In ydn-delicious@..., Luis de la Rosa <luis@>  
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have been experiencing similar issues with XML sometimes not being
> > > > returned. I think it is with the call "posts/all". This seems to
> > > > have started yesterday March 4th. I haven't traced it to a  
> > > particular
> > > > server.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Louie
> > > > Happy Apps
> > > >
> > > > On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:21 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I was doing some testing tonight and found that the API requests
> > > > > "posts/update" were often not giving me any XML. Further testing
> > > > > showed that it's most like to fail if I wait a few minutes -- the
> > > > > first response I get has no XML. But subsequent requests sent
> > > > > immediately this tend to succeed.
> > > > >
> > > > > In the following run of 14 posts/update requests made via curl,  
> > > note
> > > > > that numbers 1 and 11 failed. The others succeeded.
> > > > >
> > > > > It seems that the failures always occur with server fe07, but
> > > > > sometimes fe07 works. Is something broken in Yahoo!-land?
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerry Krinock
> > > > >
> > > > > FAILED:
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <!-- fe07.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:52:59 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe03.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:53:08 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe02.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:53:15 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe09.feeds.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:53:21 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe06.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:53:55 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe02.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:53:58 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe06.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:54:04 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe03.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:54:09 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe04.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:54:12 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe07.feeds.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:54:16 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > FAILED:
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <!-- fe07.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:55:40 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe03.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:55:50 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe01.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 21:56:04 PST 2009 -->
> > > > >
> > > > > Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > <update time="2009-03-05T05:42:53Z" inboxnew="0"/>
> > > > > <!-- fe04.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Wed Mar 4
> > > > > 22:00:45 PST 2009 -->
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