Unusual "HTTP/1.1 500 internal server errors"

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Hi,
Since yesterday i have been repeatedly experiencing “HTTP/1.1 500 internal server error” messages when requesting DB-nomics data using the R package (rdb(ids = “”)) - for example: rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”)).
Usually, the problem disappears after asking this same data a few times (however this is not very convenient when including such request in a longer code). I never had these issues before yesterday, even though i was then running the exact same code.
Is anyone experiencing similar difficulties?
Thanks in advance for your help
françois

2

Hi,
I just tried to reproduce your error (with the last version of rdbnomics):
library(rdbnomics)
rdb(ids = c("BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A"))
But it works fine for me. Do you have any other example ?

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thanks ! yes, it sometimes work for me as well. the behavior does not appear deterministic, so i can’t find an example that fails systematically. let me try to find something that would fail systematically. Here’s the traceback if it helps?

Error: HTTP/1.1 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

  1. stop(e)

  2. value[3L]

  3. tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])

  4. tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)

  5. tryCatch({ if (userl) { if (as.numeric(R.Version()$major) >= 3) { if (as.numeric(R.Version()$minor) < 2) { …

  6. get_data(x, userl, curl_args, run = run + 1)

  7. value[3L]

  8. tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])

  9. tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)

  10. tryCatch({ if (userl) { if (as.numeric(R.Version()$major) >= 3) { if (as.numeric(R.Version()$minor) < 2) { …

  11. get_data(x, userl, curl_args, run = run + 1)

  12. value[3L]

  13. tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])

  14. tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)

  15. tryCatch({ if (userl) { if (as.numeric(R.Version()$major) >= 3) { if (as.numeric(R.Version()$minor) < 2) { …

  16. get_data(api_link, use_readLines, curl_config)

  17. rdb_by_api_link(api_link = link, …)

  18. rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”, “BEA/NIPA-T10105/DPCERC-A”))

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The below code fails systematically for me. Sorry if it’s long but that’s the only way i could get it to fail always. I’m using also using 0.4.6. I provide the sessionInfo() below. Thanks !

library(“rdbnomics”)
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/DPCERC-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/DPCERC-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/DPCERC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/DDURRC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/DNDGRC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/DSERRC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/DGDSRC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/DSERRC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A006RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A008RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/Y033RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/B009RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A011RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A014RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A822RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-A”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10106/A191RX-A”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A191RC-Q”,
“BEA/NIPA-T10105/A019RC-Q”))
rdb(ids = c(“BEA/NIPA-T11000/A4002C-Q”,
“BEA/NIPA-T11000/A261RC-Q”))

sessionInfo()

R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.3

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] rdbnomics_0.4.6

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.2 tools_3.5.2 curl_3.3 yaml_2.2.0 data.table_1.12.0 jsonlite_1.6

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Hi @fgeerolf

We had issues on our servers, indeed. I think the problems you encountered were related.

Thanks for the reporting.

We plan to improve our monitoring system to be notified quickly, when this happens.

Christophe

6

yes, it works perfect now. thanks
françois

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Hi @cbenz
I also have 500 internal server errors from RESTful service as I remember near same time, I din’t create a issue because I suppose that you have some type of server monitor system.

For now all responds are correct.