[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk user lookup 502s

2010-04-05 Thread iematthew
Yes, I am dealing with the 502s by following up with a retry until it succeeds. I have not come across any that did not succeed after a second attempt. Just wanted to give the team a heads up. Not mission critical at this point for me. On Apr 2, 8:21 pm, jmathai jmat...@gmail.com wrote: In my

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Bulk user lookup 502s

2010-04-05 Thread Raffi Krikorian
and thanks for the heads up - we're investigating this to see if it can e made more responsive when we're under load. On Apr 5, 2010, at 6:05 AM, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote: Yes, I am dealing with the 502s by following up with a retry until it succeeds. I have not come

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk user lookup 502s

2010-04-02 Thread iematthew
Sorry, I hit the reply to author accidentally on my last reply. Sounds like what's happening is a caching latency. I've set my script to do an exponential backoff on the errors starting at 4 seconds, but none of the attempts ever requires more than the 4 second delay. Until the Twitter team can

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk user lookup 502s

2010-04-02 Thread jmathai
In my experience you have to deal with 502s. I had a retry mechanism in place which would retry a request up to 3 times if a 5xx response was received. This was ≈ 6 months ago so I'm not sure the current state of affairs. On Apr 2, 11:47 am, iematthew matthew.dai...@ientryinc.com wrote: Sorry,