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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