Hi Ben, The request works for me, so the time out issue is a performance issue and not related to API problems. We have been having some hiccups in December and we are looking into them.
- Ian On 19/12/07 20:07, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Send Connotea-code-devel mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/connotea-code-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Connotea-code-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. failing request (Benjamin Good) > 2. Re: Throttling (Martin Flack) > 3. Re: Throttling (Martin Flack) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:41:38 -0800 > From: Benjamin Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Connotea-code-devel] failing request > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII > > Is there anything wrong with this request for any two bookmarks ? > > http://www.connotea.org/data/bookmarks?num=2&start=0 > > Why does it time out? > > thanks > -Ben > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:29:07 -0500 > From: Martin Flack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Connotea-code-devel] Throttling > To: Christopher Townson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Christopher Townson wrote: >> How does the throttling work for the Connotea server? >> >> I'm wondering because API calls that get refused receive HTML (rather than >> RDF or XML, which is not ideal to have to handle as a client). >> >> Would it be possible to get the server to return an RDF message when API >> calls are refused? This could also make the reasoning clear by providing a >> human-readable error message. > > Hi Chris, > > We may do this at some point. Throttling just happens earlier in the > process. > > What we actually advise is to first refer to the HTTP status code. For > 503 as the return code you can stop and loop for a retry after a pause. > > For API access, you should say "WWW::Connotea" in your outbound > User-Agent header, which will be recognized on our end for a bit of > extra help. (The Perl API wrapper, if not all of them, should do this > for you.) > > This page describes the throttling algorithm: > http://www.connotea.org/wiki/Throttling > > Regards, > Martin Flack > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:49:22 -0500 > From: Martin Flack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Connotea-code-devel] Throttling > To: Christopher Townson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Christopher Townson wrote: >> How does the throttling work for the Connotea server? >> >> I'm wondering because API calls that get refused receive HTML (rather than >> RDF or XML, which is not ideal to have to handle as a client). >> >> Would it be possible to get the server to return an RDF message when API >> calls are refused? This could also make the reasoning clear by providing a >> human-readable error message. > > Ah, just realized to which "Chris" I was replying. ;-) If you need me to > change the API 503 to RDF, I'll be happy to take care of it for you. ;-) > > Cheers, > Martin > > > > > ------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Connotea-code-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/connotea-code-devel > > > End of Connotea-code-devel Digest, Vol 20, Issue 4 > ************************************************** -- Ian Mulvany [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44(0)2078434756 www.nature.com www.connotea.org -- ******************************************************************************** DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. 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