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barnesgc
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8 years ago

Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <.Path

I have a VB.NET application that has been successfully using the .NET API to get a list of available files and download any that are missing in our local data share.  It has been running once a day, ...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
Thanks for the report! Based on the error message, it looks like the JSON parsing is failing because the response didn't contain valid JSON (e.g., it has "<").

That could happen due to intermittent server issues on our side. I can't reproduce the issue right now. Are you still seeing it?
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    barnesgc
    New member | Level 2
    8 years ago

    Everything worked correctly this morning.  It's a daily process, so if I encouter it again I will post here.

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      Greg-DB
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      8 years ago
      Thanks! Server issues can happen occasionally, so it may be helpful to add some automatic retries for failures like this.

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