Thank you very much for your explanation. I am going to spend some
time looking into all this and then report back.

On Aug 28, 2:04 am, Rossko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am not sure what you are saying...
>
> Okies, I'm saying that geocoding takes a finite time, a relatively
> long time in terms of server-side script execution. Your data has to
> go off to Google and a reply come back.   Exactly how long this takes
> is unpredictable but the average will usually vary by time of day
> because server workloads and internet traffic varies by time of day.
>
> We don't know how your server side script handles this delay.
> Does it just wait forever? (probably not!)
> Does it wait for a fixed time, i.e. a timeout period?  Could be, if so
> how does it handle a timed-out request .... your script might retry
> the request.  Or it might display an error message. Or it might send
> empty data to your webpage... ?
> Or your server script might handle it asynchrously, which is whole
> topic in itself, but often trips people up.
>
> On top of that, there are various reasons why Google might reject your
> request temporarily, and not send you the data, but send an error code
> instead.  Mike knows this will happen sooner or later, which is why
> he's banging on about what your server script does if it gets a
> response like that ... guessing that it blindly carries on as usual
> and sends empty data to your webpage.
>
> cheers, Ross K
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