[webservices] HTTP status code

[Chad Trabant]

Hi John,

During some maintenance or error conditions you will receive an HTTP 503 when the service is unavailable.

For now, unfortunately, when you hit the limit of parallel requests the connections are dropped/reset at the TCP level.  From the client perspective it would be better if we returned an HTTP 503 in this case.  We'll look into making this possible and balance with other security implications.

Chad

----- Original Message -----
From: "John D. West" <john.d.west at asu.edu>
To: "IRIS Web Services List" <webservices at iris.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 3:01:35 PM
Subject: [webservices] HTTP status code

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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