I've just noticed that my API queries are failing in JSON parsing, because of API Site shows offline HTML Page.
I wish it would return a valid JSON response, instead of HTML Page.
When API site goes offline, please return a JSON , instead of Stack Overflow alike offline HTML page
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hmm..... needs a bump?Sky Sanders– Sky Sanders2012-02-12 23:56:50 +00:00Commented Feb 12, 2012 at 23:56
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2The image/screenshot is gone and not archived anywhere. Please edit in the correct image.Brock Adams– Brock Adams2014-07-13 00:10:41 +00:00Commented Jul 13, 2014 at 0:10
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While this would indeed be ideal for planned outages, your code and/or libraries & dependencies should be able to handle this elegantly, lest you get bitten by the unplanned outages.
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shouldn't you just be able to check the response code?Carson Myers– Carson Myers2010-05-28 06:53:00 +00:00Commented May 28, 2010 at 6:53
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1Exactly. That, and set a reasonable timeout for the request. No reason to go crazy on the server side.Greg Hurlman– Greg Hurlman2010-05-29 22:36:20 +00:00Commented May 29, 2010 at 22:36
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3@carson - jsonp implementations have a very limited and platform inconsistent ability to respond to non-200 responses, basically making a non-200 response a black hole leaving an ambiguous and artificial timeout the only option.Sky Sanders– Sky Sanders2010-07-16 08:10:28 +00:00Commented Jul 16, 2010 at 8:10