DownloadError: ApplicationError: 5 ??

[andreas schmid]

hi,

in my app i have to request content from itself and most of my errors are 'DownloadError: ApplicationError: 5' 
what does that exactly mean? what caused he error? i cant imagine that my request needs more than 10 seconds to fetch the result so it has to be something else.

thanks

    content = urlfetch.fetch(url, deadline=10).content
  File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/urlfetch.py", line 245, in fetch
    return rpc.get_result()
  File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 534, in get_result
    return self.__get_result_hook(self)
  File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/urlfetch.py", line 338, in _get_fetch_result
    raise DownloadError(str(err))
DownloadError: ApplicationError: 5

[MLTrim]

I'm having the same problem since 7 days,
no official response by any of the Google developers yet.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-python/browse_thread/thread/d9d6637467ac2306

From what I see, the UrlFetch is broken in some way as sometimes the
timeout occurs before the 10 seconds deadline.

Opened a bug here:
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4718