Hey there, I'm posting this because I'm concerned with the possibility of exceeding the rate limit and so I would like advice on what to do. I have an application that does several queries to the Search API on several Geocode locations. The twitter Search API documentation clearly states that if I hit a 503 status code I should (and I do) have my application wait the time specified in the "Retry-After" header.
However I haven't yet hit any 503 status codes, instead I'm receiving a few 502 http status codes with the infamous "Time out!" whale message. My question is: How should I process these? Since there is no "Retry-After" header on 502 codes I can't know how much time to wait. Will it influence my rate limiting, and get me banned if I ignore them? How long should I wait before the next request? (a few seconds, minutes, until the next hour?) Would appreciate any input I could get on this :) Thank you.
