I just had one non-json response, in the middle of about 10 requests made with curl -vvv (other responses were correct)
Below are 3 requests and the non-json response bracketted by 2 good responses which contain the response time and other logging data. HTH Rudi rudolf-farkass-macbook-pro:TwitterWeb rudifarkas$ curl -vvv http://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.json * About to connect() to twitter.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 168.143.161.20... connected * Connected to twitter.com (168.143.161.20) port 80 (#0) > GET /users/show/rudifa.json HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) libcurl/7.16.3 > OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 > Host: twitter.com > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:45:23 GMT < Server: hi < X-RateLimit-Limit: 150 < X-Transaction: 1252835123-2408-31139 < Status: 200 OK < ETag: "df090f6c8147e20ba7fe81315a66b9af" < Last-Modified: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:45:23 GMT < X-RateLimit-Remaining: 124 < Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 < Pragma: no-cache < Content-Length: 1176 < Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0 < Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT < X-Revision: a62881015b2c2fb6f795bf931bd56bd494f37254 < X-RateLimit-Reset: 1252836853 < Set-Cookie: lang=en; path=/ < Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7CDoRdHJhbnNfcHJvbXB0MDoHaWQiJWU5OGQyZmU3NWVkY2RhZjhkYTk5%250ANTBlNTA4OTk0MzhhIgpmbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVyOjpGbGFz %250AaDo6Rmxhc2hIYXNoewAGOgpAdXNlZHsA--66931156c75554797fc576876bdec52dc705736e; domain=.twitter.com; path=/ < Vary: Accept-Encoding < Connection: close < * Closing connection #0 {"profile_sidebar_border_color":"BDDCAD","description":"Wrote firmware for world-class osciloscopes for many years. Now learning iPhone programming tricks. Loves skiing.","url":null,"screen_name":"rudifa","status": {"in_reply_to_status_id":null,"favorited":false,"in_reply_to_user_id":null,"source":"<a href=\"http://apiwiki.twitter.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">API</ a>","created_at":"Thu Sep 10 16:49:49 +0000 2009","in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"id": 3890997267,"truncated":false,"text":"De retour de la T\u00eate de Parmelan"},"following":null,"verified":false,"profile_text_color":"333333","followers_count": 9,"profile_background_image_url":"http://a1.twimg.com/ profile_background_images/17762518/ DSC01211-63-2.jpeg","created_at":"Thu Apr 30 22:42:35 +0000 2009","notifications":null,"friends_count": 29,"profile_link_color":"0084B4","profile_background_tile":false,"favourites_count": 0,"profile_background_color":"9AE4E8","protected":false,"time_zone":"Bern","location":"Geneva","name":"Rudi Farkas","profile_sidebar_fill_color":"DDFFCC","id": 36797542,"statuses_count":52,"utc_offset": 3600,"profile_image_url":"http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/311858510/ me-bsp-6a_normal.png"} rudolf-farkass-macbook-pro:TwitterWeb rudifarkas$ curl -vvv http://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.json * About to connect() to twitter.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 168.143.161.20... connected * Connected to twitter.com (168.143.161.20) port 80 (#0) > GET /users/show/rudifa.json HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) libcurl/7.16.3 > OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 > Host: twitter.com > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.0 200 OK < Connection: Close < Pragma: no-cache < cache-control: no-cache < Refresh: 0.1 < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 < <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/strict.dtd"> <!-- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> --> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1"> <TITLE></TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY><P></BODY> </HTML> * Closing connection #0 rudolf-farkass-macbook-pro:TwitterWeb rudifarkas$ curl -vvv http://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.json * About to connect() to twitter.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 168.143.161.20... connected * Connected to twitter.com (168.143.161.20) port 80 (#0) > GET /users/show/rudifa.json HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) libcurl/7.16.3 > OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 > Host: twitter.com > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:45:35 GMT < Server: hi < X-RateLimit-Limit: 150 < X-Transaction: 1252835135-57410-29384 < Status: 200 OK < ETag: "df090f6c8147e20ba7fe81315a66b9af" < Last-Modified: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:45:35 GMT < X-RateLimit-Remaining: 123 < Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 < Pragma: no-cache < Content-Length: 1176 < Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0 < Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT < X-Revision: a62881015b2c2fb6f795bf931bd56bd494f37254 < X-RateLimit-Reset: 1252836853 < Set-Cookie: lang=en; path=/ < Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7CDoRdHJhbnNfcHJvbXB0MDoHaWQiJWY0NDM0ODQ3YWI2NDk5OTg4OTY3%250AYWQ1ZjU5Njg3OWIwIgpmbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVyOjpGbGFz %250AaDo6Rmxhc2hIYXNoewAGOgpAdXNlZHsA-- d454f0c630e2e82ace19b7056947734184aea7ed; domain=.twitter.com; path=/ < Vary: Accept-Encoding < Connection: close < * Closing connection #0 {"profile_sidebar_border_color":"BDDCAD","description":"Wrote firmware for world-class osciloscopes for many years. Now learning iPhone programming tricks. Loves skiing.","url":null,"screen_name":"rudifa","status": {"in_reply_to_status_id":null,"favorited":false,"in_reply_to_user_id":null,"source":"<a href=\"http://apiwiki.twitter.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">API</ a>","created_at":"Thu Sep 10 16:49:49 +0000 2009","in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"id": 3890997267,"truncated":false,"text":"De retour de la T\u00eate de Parmelan"},"following":null,"verified":false,"profile_text_color":"333333","followers_count": 9,"profile_background_image_url":"http://a1.twimg.com/ profile_background_images/17762518/ DSC01211-63-2.jpeg","created_at":"Thu Apr 30 22:42:35 +0000 2009","notifications":null,"friends_count": 29,"profile_link_color":"0084B4","profile_background_tile":false,"favourites_count": 0,"profile_background_color":"9AE4E8","protected":false,"time_zone":"Bern","location":"Geneva","name":"Rudi Farkas","profile_sidebar_fill_color":"DDFFCC","id": 36797542,"statuses_count":52,"utc_offset": 3600,"profile_image_url":"http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/311858510/ me-bsp-6a_normal.png"} On Sep 12, 6:57 pm, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > This is an extremely high priority problem for us, and for me > personally, to fix. > > If you're having this problem, please free to reach out to me, but > please try to include: > > * the IP address your request is coming from > * the request you're making > * the response you got back > * the time that the request/response was made/received > > (or, a tcpdump or curl output when doing -vvv would be sufficient also) > > On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Matthew Ranney <m...@ranney.com> wrote: > > > I'm seeing tons of these as well. > > > However, I've found that if you follow the suggestion of the META > > tag to simply "refresh" in 0.1 seconds if you get this bogus > > response, you can hide most of this from users, especially if they > > are on a fast network. > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Monica Keller <monica.kel...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > We see this error 75% of the time. Have you guys made an progress on > > resolving the issue ? > > > On Sep 6, 8:14 pm, archF6 <tylerjpeter...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am able to consistently reproduce this error. I am making GET > > > requests via PHP from IP: 96.30.16.192. I receive the error without > > > fail after periods of inactivity lasting 2 hours or more. The > > header > > > response code is 200. Please let me know if I can provide any > > > additional info that might help you diagnose the problem, or if you > > > have suggestions about how best to handle. > > > > Thanks. > > > > On Sep 6, 3:35 pm, Rudifa <rudi.far...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have seen this same http page with empty body > > > > <!DOCTYPEhtmlPUBLIC "-//W3C//DTDHTML4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ > > > > TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/strict.dtd"> > > > > <!-- <!DOCTYPEHTMLPUBLIC "-//W3C//DTDHTML4.01//EN" > > > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> --> > > > > <HTML> > > > > <HEAD> > > > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1"> > > > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> > > > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1"> > > > > <TITLE></TITLE> > > > > </HEAD> > > > > <BODY><P></BODY> > > > > </HTML> > > > > a number of times in the last few days (but intermittently - a > > good > > > > response may come after several attempts), > > > > in response tohttp://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.json > > > > > The most recent one was on UTC time > > > > 2009-09-06 18:55:38.262 > > > > My IP is 84.227.186.88 as reported byhttp://www.whatismyip.com/ > > > > > Could someone at twitter.com please tell us what does this mean? > > Server > > > > (s) overloaded? > > > > > On Aug 30, 1:20 pm, Steven Wilkin <iamthebisc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I'm consistently getting the same response when > > accessinghttp://search.twitter.com/trends.jsonfrom209.40.204.183 > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > On Aug 26, 5:27 pm, Ryan Sarver <rsar...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Ben, > > > > > > > It's a known issue and we are trying to hunt it down. Can > > you please > > > > > > provide us with your source IP and an approximate time of > > when you saw > > > > > > it? > > > > > > > Thanks, RyanOn Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:00 AM, > > ben<ben.apperr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Occassionally i get back a 200 statushtmlresponse from the > > json > > > > > > > search api which look like this, most times the same > > search works > > > > > > > fine, it just happens occassionally: > > > > > > > > <!DOCTYPEhtmlPUBLIC "-//W3C//DTDHTML4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ > > > > > > > TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/strict.dtd"> > > > > > > > <!-- <!DOCTYPEHTMLPUBLIC "-//W3C//DTDHTML4.01//EN" > > > > > > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> --> > > > > > > > <HTML> > > > > > > > <HEAD> > > > > > > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1"> > > > > > > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> > > > > > > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1"> > > > > > > > <TITLE></TITLE> > > > > > > > </HEAD> > > > > > > > <BODY><P></BODY> > > > > > > > </HTML> > > > > > > > > Does anyone recognise what this kind of response means? Is > > it normal, > > > > > > > or just beta-ish quirks?- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -