[OSM-dev] Internal server error on relation member without role

[David Earl]

On 17/11/2008 19:42, Shaun McDonald wrote:
> It could just 
> be a problem of the rails daemon dying with your request going with it. 
> JOSM does have an automatic retry system.

On anything more than trivial amounts of data, I always but always get 
retries in JOSM (and before that was implemented, failures so I had to 
retry manually). It is so ubiquitous I thought this must be a widespread 
and well-known problem. It happens every time. I used to get so 
frustrated by the repeated 500 errors before the retry was implemented, 
and I assumed that had been implemented because it was such a widespread 
problem.

(I also think there is some spurious DoS detection attempt going on 
somewhere between me and the server, but I've never been able to track 
it down. I actually think it is on my desktop computer, not my ISP, 
router or anywhere OSM end. Because the REST interface does large 
numbers of requests in a short time, I think someone thinks I am trying 
to do a DoS attack and blocks the upload. This isn't the same problem as 
retries - when this happens it locks me out of OSM altogether (even 
looking at the map) on that IP for 10 - 20 minutes.)

David