[webservices] HTTP status code

[Philip Crotwell]

Hi John

You might check this out, it has information on what codes are used when.
Not sure how closely the services hew to the spec, but...
http://www.fdsn.org/webservices/FDSN-WS-Specifications-1.0.pdf

I don't actually know, but my guess is that too many requests in parallel
would be silently killed by the load balancer/firewall thingy at the DMC as
the request would never actually make it to the web service itself. Would
be nice to have some official clarification so clients can avoid using too
many threads/sockets.

Philip



On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6:01 PM, John D. West <john.d.west at asu.edu> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I understand that the new FDSN web services return HTTP 204 to indicate no
> data returned, and applaud this move.
>
> If the service is temporarily not available (say because I've made too
> many requests in parallel, system is busy, etc.) do I get a different
> return code? If so, what?
>
> Thanks!
>
>      -- John
>
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