Hey Tom, You probably want to pay the most attention to the "X-RateLimit-Remaining" header, which is the number of requests you can make before being rate-limited. It's a good practice to monitor this value and throttle your requests if necessary.
The X-RateLimit-Reset timestamp indicates when you'll recover the maximum number of Hits (X-RateLimit-Limit) for the class (X-RateLimit-Class) your request falls into. Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Tom Mc <ugg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been looking at the ratelimiting response headers and have found > some documentation, but nothing that provides me with sample values > and what they mean. > > I'm developing an application in ColdFusion and using scribe (in java) > for the OAuth library. > > I'm getting the headers back fine (at least X-RateLimit-Reset, I > haven't hit the ratelimit for Search to see what it looks like yet) > and I can read them in. That isn't the problem. What I'm having > difficulty with is what the number that actually comes back. > > It appears to be a specific time in Seconds since 1/1/1970, but when I > do the calculations, regardless of if i've hit the rate-limit I always > get a time back that is 1 hour in the future. I feel like I'm just > making a stupid mistake and overlooking something, but any help that > you can provide would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Tom McConlogue > > -- > 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
