Thanks so much for letting me know! That should've been my first port of call! Check if the fail whale was swimming!
From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rajiv VermaT Sent: Tuesday, 15 June 2010 3:07 PM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] 502 Bad Gateway when trying to receive xml results For now, Twitter is down since the last couple of hours On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:33 AM, thomen <penny.lane.m...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Guys, I've got an asp.net usercontrol to display twitter feeds. It requests the xml using this url and then parsing it: "http:// twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml? screen_name=INSERTUSERNAMEHERE&count=INSERTPOSTCOUNTHERE"; ie "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml? screen_name=ladygaga&count=5"; public List<TwitterStatus> GetStatusUpdates(string screenName, int count) { string url = String.Format(StatusesUserTimeline, screenName, count); //this becomes something like: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=ladygaga <http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=ladygaga&count=5> &count=5 string xml = FetchXmlFromUrl(url); return CreateStatusObjectsFromXml(xml, count); } protected virtual string FetchXmlFromUrl(string url) { using (WebClient client = new WebClient()) using (Stream s = client.OpenRead(url)) using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(s)) { return sr.ReadToEnd(); } } etc etc (if you need more code I can provide) Just starting over the weekend on most of our sites we're now getting the response: The remote server returned an error: (502) Bad Gateway when trying to fetch the xml from the url just wondering what would cause the 502??? the usercontrol is cached so we don't exceed the request limit.. -- Thanks & Regards Rajiv Verma Bangalore E-Mail: rajiv....@gmail.com Ph: +91-92430-12766 Go Green, Use minimum natural resources!
