What was old (news) is new, again

on Friday, March 16th, 2007 at 8:26 pm

Well, maybe I am missing something, but it seems like the same old same old: Every so often, I am getting the dreaded error 999 from yahoo.

HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 999 Unable to process request at this time — error 999

which basically is yahoo thinking i’m a bot or spyware or something. :/
Of course, the problem is intermitent, so if at first you don’t succeed…
[update: sorry about the totally ugly error msg some of you may have seen - i had errors off, but those were still coming through for some reason. using a new method, so that little thing is resolved.]

It’s late now, so I don’t want to start messing with the back-end script right now, but i’ll probably just mash up all the sources into one, and just cascade down the list, till I find an acceptable solution.
Maybe I’m missing some area where I get an api key to use with pipes. Suggestions always welcome.

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3 Responses to “What was old (news) is new, again”

1. Ed Ho Says:
   March 22nd, 2007 at 2:03 pm

   Hi Max,
   This is Ed from the Pipes team. I’m happy to see Pipes being used in SL. When you have some time, could you contact me by email to talk about the 999’s.
   Thanks!

2. Max Case Says:
   March 22nd, 2007 at 3:00 pm

   woot!

3. Uwe Mars Says:
   April 13th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

   Just change the UA in your query to a valid one (e.g. from your browser) and you’ll get a 200 OK.

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