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Hi al, I'm having
The server is temporarily unable to service your
request due to maintenance downtime or capacity
problems. Please try again later.
each time I consume since yesterday,
is anyone having any problem like this?

Now is working again!

I´m having the same problem.
Sporadically it works, but in the majority of cases i´m unable to connect to the webservice.

Is there anybody else out there with these kind of probs?

I'm having this errors since a couple of weeks ago, it works fine for 3 or 4 days and some times it doesn't work for a time.May be some maintainance issue,

There are too many requests for the free servers to cope with. The request from mobile devices are also increasing which means the limit per ip-address does not apply to them. We will have to introduce an application id to track applications and limit the number of free requests per application instead of per ip-address.

Marc

Alright... Do you have any idea when those changes concerning the app-id will come into effect?

Anyway, thx a lot for the response, your work is really appreciated and we´re considering to maybe use your commercial-services instead...

greets,
w

I don't know when it will happen. It will probably happen in two stages: first a new domain name for new users and the existing users will continue for a while till the current domain will enforce an application id.