[Tilesathome] Data download problem

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Andre Hinrichs wrote:
> I newly installed t at h client and it seems to work. At least when data download 
> was successfull. But unfortunately this is currently a rare case. What I see 
> in the logs is an instant "Internal Server Error" from API.

> In fact, I don't trust this message, since it comes too fast and downloading 
> data from JOSM workes fine. So I tested the printed URL and it works!

Unfortunately you have to trust this message because it is correct. t at h
has gotten a certain number of API slots that are different from the
slots that JOSM and "wget" would use. So that a busy t at h community
cannot interfere with regular OSM usage.

This means when e.g. the ruby instance on the t at h assigned slots has
died for whatever reasons clients will see an error while a wget would
(could) still work just fine.

The brittleness of the API when it comes to frequent downloads is one of
the reasons why we have introduced read-only mirrors such as XAPI and ROMA.

spaetz