For months I've been using the Google Drive API for simple access to fetch metadata about publicly shared document IDs. All of a sudden about a week ago (April 16) it stopped working.
I've tried repeatedly from different machines (PCs and Linux servers) with browsers and cURL and WGET, and I have even created new Google API accounts to try using different API keys, but it fails 100% of the time.
Example request URL:
https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/0By7D4SJX3kYEaGpneE1VaUN6OG8?key=MYAPIKEY
Response body:
{
"error": {
"code": 500,
"message": null
}
}
Response headers:
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
status: 500 Internal Server Error
version: HTTP/1.1
cache-control: private, max-age=0
content-encoding: gzip
content-length: 66
content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:39:49 GMT
expires: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:39:49 GMT
server: GSE
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
Is there a technical problem on the Google Drive servers that no one else is aware of? I've only seen one other report of this problem with zero feedback.
