Question

Using Zend FW based Youtube api. Often getting errors on page load

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Gdata_App_HttpException' with message 'Expected response code 200, got 503 <errors xmlns='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'><error>

Or

Read timed out after 10 second

Googled it and found usefull advise: set timeout to 180. But it doesn’t help. Again, this error occurs not everytime, but often.

$yt = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube();
$yt->getHttpClient()->setConfig(array('timeout'=>180));

How to deal with that problem?

Answer 1

503 Service Unavailable

The server is currently unable to handle the request due to a
temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. The implication is
that this is a temporary condition which will be alleviated after some
delay. If known, the length of the delay MAY be indicated in a
Retry-After header. If no Retry-After is given, the client SHOULD
handle the response as it would for a 500 response.

  Note: The existence of the 503 status code does not imply that a
  server must use it when becoming overloaded. Some servers may wish
  to simply refuse the connection.

But the real reason can be be something else, like a configuration error.
P.S: put you`re code in a try and catch the error.