I'm having the same problem since 7 days, no official response by any of the Google developers yet. http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-python/browse_thread/thread/d9d6637467ac2306
>From what I see, the UrlFetch is broken in some way as sometimes the timeout occurs before the 10 seconds deadline. Opened a bug here: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4718 On Mar 12, 12:39 pm, andreas schmid <a.schmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > in my app i have to request content from itself and most of my errors are > 'DownloadError: ApplicationError: 5' > what does that exactly mean? what caused he error? i cant imagine that my > request needs more than 10 seconds to fetch the result so it has to be > something else. > > thanks > > content = urlfetch.fetch(url, deadline=10).content > File > "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/urlfetch.py", > line 245, in fetch > return rpc.get_result() > File > "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py", > line 534, in get_result > return self.__get_result_hook(self) > File > "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/urlfetch.py", > line 338, in _get_fetch_result > raise DownloadError(str(err)) > DownloadError: ApplicationError: 5 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.