I have the signature.  I got that in before the deadline and it's all
working as best as I can tell.

I'll have to think about where I can setup some kind of amazon proxy
service.

Thanks for you insight Brandon.

Dale

On Sep 4, 2:17 pm, "Brandon N. Wirtz" <drak...@digerat.com> wrote:
> Also Check that your requests include the "signature" required as of August
> 15th.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com
>
> [mailto:google-appeng...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brandon N. Wirtz
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:36 AM
> To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [google-appengine] Re: Amazon Product Advertising API - HTTP 503
> (Throttle) Responses
>
> Yes you are sharing a few hundred IP's with a few Thousand Apps,  You will
> need a simple re-Fetch/recurl off site to do your requests.    Amazon's
> limit is about 10k requests per 24 hours, and there are people snarfing
> those up pretty quick.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:google-appeng...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of dalenewman
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:38 AM
> To: Google App Engine
> Subject: [google-appengine] Amazon Product Advertising API - HTTP 503
> (Throttle) Responses
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm runningwww.bookdope.comon GAE and I've started getting tons of
> HTTP 503 responses from Amazon's Product Advertising API.  The HTTP
> 503 is an error response you get when you've violated the 1 request
> per second per IP address rule.
>
> I'm wondering if my application might be sharing an IP address with
> another GAE application that's making requests to the Amazon Product
> Advertising API and therefore increasing the likelihood of our
> combined requests violating the 1 request per second rule.
>
> I cache all my amazon responses (if they return a HTTP status code of
> 200) for efficiency and also to keep my Amazon requests down.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else out there is experiencing this?  Or, if
> someone from Google could confirm my suspicions.  This influx of HTTP
> 503's is really cramping my style - I rely on it for searching,
> browsing, and book information.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dale
>
> PS: I've also posted on the Amazon Developer's forum for Product
> Advertising API to see if I can get any help there.
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