Re: [gotmail] curl error when hotmail's too busy

[Gene Wheelbarger]

I seem to be getting the error fairly regularly. There will be some nights when
cron will email me 3-4 times with that same error. I was thinking that it
shouldn't be that hard to check the URL that's being passed to curl for
'toobusy.html' before actually passing it. 

Maybe if I have some time this weekend, I'll give it a shot. Beware, though--I
never was all that good at perl! There may be some nasty code to follow....

Gene

Quoting John Fruetel <address@hidden>:

> Well, maybe.  Since the 'too busy' page is not reproducible, it would be
> hard to test.
> 
> Thanks!
> John Fruetel
> address@hidden
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gene Wheelbarger" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 5:20 AM
> Subject: [gotmail] curl error when hotmail's too busy
> 
> 
> I've got gotmail running in a cron job to download my email on a regular
> basis.
> I'm having a problem now and then, though. It appears that Hotmail's
> throwing
> up it's 'too busy' page and is confusing gotmail. I get the following error:
> 
> 
> curl: (3) <url> malformed
> curl: (3) <url> malformed
> curl: (3) <url> malformed
> curl: (3) <url> malformed
> An error was encountered getting the page. Command was curl
> "/toobusy.html/HoTMail" -b /tmp/fileM3xHZzgotmail_cookies -c
> /tmp/fileM3xHZzgotmail_cookies -s -S -i -m 600 -D
> /tmp/file4J9N4mgotmail_headers -A "Mozilla/4.73 [en] (Win98; I)" at
> /usr/bin/gotmail line 551.
> 
> 
> Is there a chance of recognizing this in the gotmail script and either
> ignoring
> it or giving a more meaningful message? Maybe even a new configuration
> parameter to tell whether or not to report this as an error. If gotmail runs
> into the 'too busy' page, I really don't care to hear about it, since the
> email
> will get picked up in 15 minutes when gotmail runs again. I don't want to
> forward all cron errors to /dev/null because I would still like to know
> about
> any _real_ errors.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gene
> 
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