Thanks Taylor, that's the info I need :) hax0rsteve
On 21 Mar 2011, at 18:57, Taylor Singletary wrote: > Hi there Steve, > > As you've noticed, Search API rate limiting is applied and handled quite > differently from the rest of the REST API. In the case of Search, when > everything is operating under typical conditions, a Retry-After HTTP header > will be sent to you (not an X-Retry-Header) -- the value of that header will > contain an integer indicating the number of seconds to wait until issuing > additional search API requests. > > Taylor > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:43 AM, hax0rsteve <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > A question w/r/t HTTP responses when rate limiting is applied, which I'm > hoping > some kind soul will answer before I start hammering away at the API in > careless > experimentation : > > 420 Enhance Your Calm > > I understand from the docs that when this status code is returned, a > "Retry-After" > header will be returned in my http response, does this take the same format as > the other rate headers e.g. : > > X-RateLimit-Limit: 350 > X-RateLimit-Remaining: 350 > X-RateLimit-Reset: 1277485629 > > so the Retry-After header will be "X-Retry-After:" ? Or is it some other > format ? > > Obviously I could find out by jamming a huge number of search requests at the > API, > but it would be nice to know what to look for beforehand so that I can tell > when to stop :) > > Thank you kindly. > > > hax0rsteve > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
