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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.

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  • hmm..... needs a bump?
    – Sky Sanders
    Feb 12, 2012 at 23:56
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    The image/screenshot is gone and not archived anywhere. Please edit in the correct image.
    – Brock Adams
    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
    May 28, 2010 at 6:53
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    Exactly. That, and set a reasonable timeout for the request. No reason to go crazy on the server side.
    – Greg Hurlman
    May 29, 2010 at 22:36
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    @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
    Jul 16, 2010 at 8:10

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