NMARoutingErrorNetworkCommunication Explanation - here-api

For some of the users of our app, they are consistently getting a NMARoutingErrorNetworkCommunication error whenever they try to do navigation.
They have attempted to retry the routing to no success. They have switched from wifi to cellular, tried different locations, and routing parameters with no success. They have switched from Truck to Car routing with no success either.
On top of this, everything else works. The map screen is fine, Google routes fine, and Apple routes fine.
From what I can tell, this is a rejection by the server for routing. Is there any more explanation as to what this bug is, or how it might be debugged? It effects probably 2% or less of our users, making it hard to recreate. But since it's an error with the HERE servers itself, it makes me wonder how much control I have to fix it.

NMARoutingErrorNetworkCommunication - The online route calculation request failed because of a networking error. The route calculation request should be retried.
It could be possible that the request coming from your application could have some incorrect params that may be causing long enough to receive from our end, or routing request is blocking. If you could more details with code snippet, how this is calling request at your end.

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What status code should I set when updating and reloading the website?

What status code should I set when updating and reloading the website for search engines to understand?
Currently, I use the code 503, but Google registers it as a site error!
503 is the most appropriate HTTP response code for the scenario you describe. There are no 4xx or 3xx errors that indicate "try again later".
But lets step back:
It shouldn't be a problem if Google occasionally fails to crawl your website. If your business model is significantly impacted by this, I would suggest that there is something a bit wrong with your model. (And besides, that is a matter for discussion between you and Google!)
It would be more a problem if your website's (real) users see 503's.
There is an obvious solution for you. Reimplement your mechanisms for reloading your website so that you don't need to send a 5xx response while reloading.
For example, implement a pair of sites and flip between them using a load balancer or similar. That way you can be updating one site while the other site is serving requests. When the new site is ready switch it into production in the loadbalancer.
There are probably other ways to do this ... depending on how your site works.

Tx_news "502-Bad Gateway" in backend

I'm using Nginx and the extension tx_news. When I'm working in backend with news(cut,edit,close,...) I get sometimes a 502-Bad Gateway exception. This exception I get after a second. I don't understand what's going wrong here. Sometimes it works well and sometimes I get this exception more often. I only get this exception in combination with tx_news. The rest of backend is working fine. Maybe this is only a configuration problem of nginx connections or something like this. Is anybody here who has an idea?
Every hint can help me :-)!
Check the consistency of your database records on such a page.
I used to get 502 bad gateway errors on Nginx after copying a page with fluidcontent elements because somhow a FCE got itself as its parent, which caused an infinite loop upon rendering the page module. But all I saw was the bad gateway page. This only happened with a specific version of fluidcontent.
Maybe you have some relations in your news records that are circular after pasting? Worth checking for it.

Debugging requests which are 'stuck' in an IIS worker process

In case of TL;DR - I basically need guidance regarding what tools are available to debug requests which are issued to IIS and which stall inside a module.
I have a problem with an old ASP 2.0 app at the moment whereby it will periodically become unavailable and recycling the app pool (horrible as that may be) doesn't bring it back up 100% of the time.
So first of all it presents itself as requests entering the app pool and being trapped in state 'BeginRequest' in RewriteModule.
It is not a specific request which is always the first to experience this issue. The issue cannot be easily recreated either.
Eventually requests join this backlog and when it becomes 70+ deep the app pool fails to respond to pings from WAS and it forcibly recycles. Predictably it doesn't stop on-time and the old app pool is forced to stop. When the new app pool comes up it either works just fine or it instantly experiences the same issue as the outgoing one and requests begin to queue.
In issues like this all the official guidance is understandably focussed around looking at why the RewriteModule may choke.
I have validated my redirections and though complex there are no obvious issues with syntax (XML validates).
Likewise in inetmgr loading up the URL Rewrite Module seems to parse the configs fine and show them visually.
Basic stuff like permissions is all fine.
When the app is working normally I also used Failed Request Tracing/Logging to look at the request pipeline for a sample URL which stalled and I can confirm that there is no circular logic or weird errors presenting - the request seems to be handled just fine. This also showed me how high up the rewritemodule is invoked and from this I really don't see how the issue could be app-related as .NET isn't invoked at this point.
Annoyingly when an app pool is experiencing this issue and I can throw in requests which just stall Failed Request Tracing is no good because you actually need a request to get to the end of it's journey and fail otherwise it refuses to log anything out.
I resorted to taking process dumps of affected w3wp.exe's and running them through DebugDiag. Unfortunately the only thing I see is that threads are open accessing the rewritemodule but precious little about what they are stuck on.
As anyone else would do I've tried to track the start of the issue back to any recently installed patches or code changes but nothing matches. Likewise this is happening on 3x servers otherwise I would try reinstalling the rewritemodule. Other sites on the same server which invoke rewritemodule are unaffected.
Has anyone else experienced issues like this - the net seems to have relatively little info in this case. Perhaps you can recommend further debugging tools or approaches for IIS which I can adapt to this scenario? This is sort of a cry for help from someone more used to Apache/Nginx - sorry for the long post.

Is there any reason a website should return appropriate HTTP status codes?

I'm working on a small web application, and I'm trying to decide if I should make the effort to emit semantically appropriate HTTP status codes from within the application.
I mean, it makes sense for the web server itself to emit proper response codes. 500 Internal Server Error for a misconfigured Apache or 404 Not Found for a missing index.php or whatever all make sense, since there's nothing else the server can really do.
It also makes sense to manipulate the browser with 303 See Other or other HTTP mechanisms which actually produce behavior.
But if all that happened is a missing GET parameter, for example, is there any reason to go out of my way to return 400 Bad Request? Or how about 404 Not Found, if my application is handling all the routing by itself? From what I can tell there isn't any behavior associated with either of those error codes.
My general opinion: provide codes if the code provides actionable data for the user.
If all you're doing is presenting content, then in most cases I think it's less important. If YouTube fails to load a video, I mostly care about the fact that I can't watch my video. That it failed with a 418 status might be intellectually interesting, but it doesn't really provide me with any helpful information (Even assuming a non-silly failure code).
On the other hand, if you're allowing some kind of user interaction with a server, then the codes become much more important. I might actually care about why my request failed, because I'm now in a position to do something about it.
However, there are some codes that are actionable. 410 Gone for example: If my request failed for that reason, but I just got back a generic "Stuff Broke" message, I'd probably repeat the request a bunch of times, get nowhere, and give up in frustration. Knowing that the thing I'm looking for doesn't exist is a pretty useful thing for me to know.
I think its very important for a web service to respond with appropriate codes as sometime the developer using the service might not know whats wrong or why the app stopped working unless he views the status code.

OpenLaszlo 4.9 DHTML login servlet forwards but never loads page

I am having some problems at the moment using a LoginServlet running OL 4.9, on Tomcat 7.
I have Tomcat configured to allow crossContext to be true, and that allows me to work with other app contexts on the same server. Specifically a Login Servlet. My only other app is the OpenLaszlo presentation server LPS(lps-4.9.0).
I am using a Tomcat Request Filter that snoops the incoming addresses and looks for a particular cookie of authentication, which then makes its way to the LoginServlet that does a forwarding to the OpenLaszlo page. This was done to KEEP the cookie alive when the Request Filter was awakened at the loading of the OpenLaszlo page.
All of that is working now.
There are no errors or warnings in the lps.log file or the localhost.<date>.log either, however the page loading goes on forever, and never completes.
Could it be something that I am passing along in the forwarded URL? I am using at least 2 parameters to cause lzr to be set to "dhtml" and then lzt to be set to "html."
I can't even get a simple <canvas> page with a simple button to load. Has anyone seen this, and been able to fix the problem?
Since I first wrote my description I wrote another plea for help to some friends and ex coworkers, and this will help update the details of what I have discovered thus far.
Here’s the scenario: I am using Tomcat 7, and have installed the WAR file for OpenLaszlo 4.9.
Alongside of this I created a LoginServlet hierarchy and code and web.xml file just under
“webapps”; the same level that lps-4.9.0 is installed.
The sequence of events is the following:
1. A login page comes up that takes the username and password, and sends that
off to /LoginServlet to process. Note: I have also written and registered a Request Filter
for Tomcat that halts traversal beyone /lps-4.9.0 and checks for proper authentication
as I retrieve the cookies from requests trying to access those levels.
2. In the LoginServlet, I am creating a MACH COOKIE that I’ll send along with the response,
so that the Filter will allow me past the /lps-4.9.0 level. To do this I had to do a FORWARD
operation to preserve the cookie. a REDIRECT would just drop them. Since you can’t
give a relative path higher than the Servlet’s root, I had to turn on Tomcat’s “crossContext”
feature that allows me to do that in the same domain. And I have both contexts registered
in Tomcat’s conf directory in server.xml, I believe. Anyhow it works. I can grab the
/lps-4.9.0 context, get a Request Dispatcher, and then use that dispatcher to FORWARD
the request/response pair to my OpenLaszlo file(the LZX file).
So it seems to get as far as LOADING the OpenLaszlo page, but when I perused the console
messages in Chrome’s Developer Tools debugger, it showed that it was actually trying
to use the context of the original request(i.e. /LoginServlet); and of course that doesn’t
exist. I guess when I passed along the original request/response pair, the request had
the FIRST context used, and then tried to derive the relative path to the file off of that.
QUESTION: Can I just copy the stuff from the original request, but change the context,
and forward THAT?  Or architecturally should I try something else?
Thanks,
C
And the answer is..... You CAN'T DO IT... Period.
BTW. The Openlaszlo website server is DOWN, DEAD, KAPUT, NIX, GONE, NO MORE...
This will be the final project that I personally implement with the tool
with no support.
It's very sad to see something that had the right idea about development cycle times,
and keeping the client side GUI construction simple, fast, and easy could be something
that dies because of lack of interest? Say wha? Can't be because FLASH was in jeopardy.
I'm pretty sure that we, as programmers, aren't so paranoid about losing our jobs
that we think we must spend lots of hours CODING an interface to keep it secret.
I'm certainly not paranoid about it. I know there is NET BEANS for swing type
GUIS, and I've heard that GWT has adopted something similar now, and so I'll
keep looking for that perfect invention and deal with what is left over.
Critical Path must have been purchased by someone else too, and so the
site sponsor has no motivation to keep it alive, while it dies a slow death.

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