On 2009 Mar 05, at 09:39, chris_draycott wrote:

> 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.

Well, if it would give me some useful information which I could
display to the user regarding why it failed, that would be
worthwhile. But if it's just going to say "Sorry, request could not
handled", well, 500 is good enough. And it doesn't require me to add
any more code to my app :))

> 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.

It seems about the same to me, Chris. Server fe07 is still the
culprit. I just ran another test and got:

Server fe07 Worked properly: 1/4 Score: 25%
Other servers Worked properly: 5/5 Score: 100%

The test is very easy to do....

Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
<!-- fe07.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Mon Mar 9
20:52:40 PDT 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="2009-03-05T22:35:43Z" inboxnew="0"/>
<!-- fe09.feeds.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Mon Mar 9
20:52:46 PDT 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="2009-03-05T22:35:43Z" inboxnew="0"/>
<!-- fe07.feeds.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Mon Mar 9
20:52:50 PDT 2009 -->

Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
<!-- fe07.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Mon Mar 9
20:52:58 PDT 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="2009-03-05T22:35:43Z" inboxnew="0"/>
<!-- fe05.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Mon Mar 9
20:53:03 PDT 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="2009-03-05T22:35:43Z" inboxnew="0"/>
<!-- fe04.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Mon Mar 9
20:53:08 PDT 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="2009-03-05T22:35:43Z" inboxnew="0"/>
<!-- fe01.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Mon Mar 9
20:53:14 PDT 2009 -->

Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ curl -ujerrykrinock:MY_PASSWORD
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update
<!-- fe07.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Mon Mar 9
20:53:19 PDT 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="2009-03-05T22:35:43Z" inboxnew="0"/>
<!-- fe10.feeds.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Mon Mar 9
20:53:25 PDT 2009 -->