Error 500 (continuation from Stack Apps)

[Pulse]

I'm running 3.6.6pre but I can download a 3.6.3/4 version and see if
it makes a difference, it will only take a few minutes.

[Pulse]

I just tried again with a fresh 3.6.3 version of fx. No other
extensions installed and it returns the same error.

[Carson]

What do you get if you just try to hit this API directly?

http://api.serverfault.com/0.8/users?filter=Pulse

I've tried a number of different configurations and I can't repeat the
problem.

[Pulse]

That returns the following:

{
"total": 1,
"page": 1,
"pagesize": 30,
"users": [
{
"user_id": 45447,
"user_type": "registered",
"creation_date": 1276163316,
"display_name": "Pulse",
"reputation": 101,
"email_hash": "cb43179f77209c38de44b41d1a5344bd",
"age": 52,
"last_access_date": 1276163316,
"website_url": "http://None",
"location": "Vladivostok",
"about_me": "Retired",
"question_count": 0,
"answer_count": 0,
"view_count": 0,
"up_vote_count": 0,
"down_vote_count": 0,
"user_questions_url": "/users/45447/questions",
"user_answers_url": "/users/45447/answers",
"user_favorites_url": "/users/45447/favorites",
"user_tags_url": "/users/45447/tags",
"user_badges_url": "/users/45447/badges",
"user_timeline_url": "/users/45447/timeline",
"user_mentioned_url": "/users/45447/mentioned",
"user_comments_url": "/users/45447/comments",
"user_reputation_url": "/users/45447/reputation",
"badge_counts": {
"gold": 0,
"silver": 0,
"bronze": 1
}
}
]
}


I hope I'm not missing something really obvious here...

[Pulse]

This is curious. I tried to configure Swatch again just after I ran
the test using the API and it now works...

[Carson]

Yes, that makes me wonder if it is something going on with how the API
is detecting IPs for rate limiting. It is something that is very hard
to resolve. Let me know if you see more errors since it will reset at
some point.

[Carson]

Can you try a search on a different site without hitting that link for
them first? Did hitting the link fix the 500 on every site?

[Pulse]

What ever changed has fixed the problem for all sites. I will keep an
eye on things and let you know if there are any changes.

Thanks for the help and for a nice extension :)