I handled this by implementing exponential backoff, as described here: http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/12/documents-list-api-best-practices.html
John On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Mark Stepp <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone found a solution for the 503 Error? is there anyway to reset > the quota? is there a waiting period before the quota is automatically > reset? any information would be great > > > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:04:44 AM UTC-5, John Brayton wrote: >> >> I am seeing two different symptoms: >> >> 1. Photo requests failing. As Donald reported, the limit seems to be >> roughly two requests per second. When I throttle back my photo >> requests to two requests per second, I no longer see photo requests >> failing. >> >> 2. I am getting 503 responses to login requests via ClientLogin where >> I have issued a large number of requests for either the contact list >> or contact photos. In one case, the issue is a test account with a >> large number of contacts. I have been exercising the Contacts API on >> this test account extensively in an effort to deal with this problem. >> However, in another case one of my customers is encountering this with >> my software. >> >> I am eager to work within Google's guidelines, but am frustrated to >> not know what they are. Are we limited by number of requests per >> second, minute, hour, or day? Or by bytes served per second, minute, >> hour, or day? Since Google is not publishing this information, the >> only way to determine this is by experimenting. Experimenting only >> means throwing excessive requests to the Contacts API to see where the >> API stops serving us. >> >> John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles APIs" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html
