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Outage indicator

About two months ago there has been an outage for several days.
Lawton mentioned that he might add an off switch that comes along with an handy HTTP status code (e.g. 503) that indicates if the API is down.
Can we rely on this status code to be sent now?

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Posted by: Lawton Campbell

Lawton Campbell

Web Programmer

I… I should add that in today.

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Posted by: Christian.1408

Christian.1408

Thanks, Lawton!
That simplifies just so many things! :-)

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Posted by: Daenerys.7562

Daenerys.7562

I am having trouble using my API in GW2Timer.com/account I keep receiving the message that the api server may be down. Is this true?

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Posted by: Lawton Campbell

Lawton Campbell

Web Programmer

There were a couple of blips about an hour ago due to network connectivity, but aside from that I dunno. I’m not seeing any issues on my end; you could manually check

https://api.guildwars2.com/v2/account?access_token=1234-API-KEY-HERE-6789

to see if any errors are returned. There’s definitely a lurking bug or two that can cause an error to be persistently returned for an account — really not sure what causes it but I suspect it’s triggered by transferring across NA/EU.