This is the error that I am getting. I have wrapped the code with the retry
logic but of not much help. It shows a HTTP 502 Bad gateway error and also
somewhere in between says
<h2>Twitter is over capacity.</h2>
<p>Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.</p>
I have been getting this error for more than three weeks now.
HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:44:50 GMT
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Last-Modified: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:02:57 GMT
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<h2>Twitter is over capacity.</h2>
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:08 PM, hima latha <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am able to ping and traceroute to twitter.com so I am guessing the error
> is not because of the IP. Can you suggest any solutions to my problem?
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> If you are getting a response from the servers (even error codes) then
>> you are not blocked. A blacklisted IP looks like it goes into a
>> blackhole and no data is returned, ever.
>>
>> Are you able to ping and traceroute to twitter.com?
>>
>> -Chad
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:11 PM, hima latha <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I tried running the code on every other day for like a week now. I tried
>> it
>> > continusly but it is not working anymore. Has this got to do with any Ip
>> > addresses being blocked? To confirm this, I tried running the code on
>> > different computers but with no success.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Adam Green <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm also getting intermittent 502 errors, so I don't think this is
>> >> code specific. I am calling the search API and getting a 502 error
>> >> every couple of hours. The vast majority of API calls are working.
>> >> Repeating the call after a 502 error generally works.
>> >>
>> >> On Oct 29, 11:41 am, hima <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > Hi
>> >> > I am trying to collect users data from twitter, like the number of
>> >> > followers, number of tweets, the time the user' account is alive and
>> >> > similar statistics. I have done this before in august and got
>> >> > appropriate results with my code.I ran the code again a week ago and
>> >> > it worked and gave me results. The same code however, stopped working
>> >> > since a week now responding with a 502 bad gateway error. I am not
>> >> > able to connect to the twitter page and get the xml body. This is my
>> >> > function to return the xml page:
>> >> >
>> >> > public static String webget(String host, String doc, String username,
>> >> > String password)
>> >> > {
>> >> > String body = "";
>> >> > byte[] auth = Base64.decode(username + ":" + password
>> );
>> >> > String header = "Get " + doc + " HTTP/1.0\r\n";
>> >> > header += "Authorization: Basic " + auth ;
>> >> > header += "Accept: application/xml, text/plain,
>> >> > text/xml, text/*\r
>> >> > \n";
>> >> > header += "\r\n";
>> >> >
>> >> > try
>> >> > {
>> >> > Socket sock = new Socket(host, 80);
>> >> > OutputStreamWriter os = new
>> >> > OutputStreamWriter(sock.getOutputStream
>> >> > ());
>> >> > os.write(header);
>> >> > os.flush();
>> >> > sock.getOutputStream().flush();
>> >> >
>> >> > BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new
>> >> > InputStreamReader(sock.getInputStream()));
>> >> > String str = null;
>> >> > while ( (str = br.readLine()) != null)
>> >> > {
>> >> > body += str + "\n";
>> >> > }
>> >> > sock.close();
>> >> > }
>> >> > catch(IOException ioe)
>> >> > {
>> >> > return "";
>> >> > }
>> >> >
>> >> > return body;
>> >> > }
>> >> >
>> >> > This function is called like this:
>> >> >
>> >> > webget("twitter.com", "/users/show/"+UserId+".xml", USERNAME,
>> >> > PASSWORD)
>> >> >
>> >> > I have not made any changes to the code since august. I am guessing
>> >> > there have been changes in the twitter API which is giving me this
>> >> > error.However, nothing like this is mentioned in the forums. Can you
>> >> > let me know if there are changes in the twitter API that is causing
>> >> > this?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks
>> >> > Hima
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
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