While debugging some problems with a backend site, I noticed that the current code in MakeRequestHandler (convertResponseToJson) doesn't really care at all about the return code of the HttpResponse. In my case, the other side was returning a 503 (and an XTHMLish document) which was happily parsed into a JSON object until it hit some snag and ended up with a FeedException.
I was wondering on how to deal with this, mainly because the corresponding javascript code in core.io/io.js also has no concept of the other side failing (even the spec at http://www.opensocial.org/Technical-Resources/opensocial-spec-v08/gadgets-reference08#gadgets.io.makeRequest is pretty much ignoring the fact that the other side could fail. What would be the preferred response. Do as if nothing happened and just return an empty json object?) Ciao Henning
