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@yahoogroups.com, 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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> >
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