Hi,

I've noticed an issue entry that adresses a similar error message but it states '403' instead of -111. I've never seen this error before but lately it's starting to appear on many of my website.

Is this an indication my sitemaps are being submitted with too much aggression (frequency) or is there something else going wrong?

Thanks in advance!

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dave reid
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Yes generally a 403 response from the search engines means that you're submitting too often.

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Status: Active » Fixed
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alfthecat commented
Status: Fixed » Active

Hi,

Thanks for the reply and my apologies, I think I haven't been too clear in formulating my question; I get a -111 error, not a 403. But perhaps both indicate the same...?

Thanks in advance!

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

There is no such html error. I think you have a socket issue or a MySQL problem.

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alfthecat commented

Pretty strange... Google doesn't seem to know a -111 error of any kind. Perhaps Yahoo loves me so much it has crafted a special error for me. Or... I'm overlooking something.

I'll check further and see if e.g. cron is a culprit.

Thanks!

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Just curious, how do you invoke cron on your site? Command line?

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alfthecat commented

Yeah, I use a commandline crontab. I get the error for all search engines except Google. Cron runs every hour but the sitemap submission frequency is set to weekly and when content changes (the latter does not happen too often.)

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wiredescape commented

I got a similar error when submitting to Yahoo. This was the very first submission for a new site. Submissions to other search engines were successful.

Drupal error message:

Error occurred submitting sitemap to Yahoo!: 403.
Request: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://w...

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wiredescape commented

Update:

When the submission is made directly through browser, Yahoo gives following message:

The following errors were detected:

"limit exceeded"

The site in my case is using an old domain so maybe has not played 'nice' with Yahoo in past. Or Yahoo doesn't like the path XML sitemap is sending?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

@WiredEscape: You'll have to ask Yahoo. They are the ones who have restricted you. Also, you're problem isn't related to the -111 error entitled here, so you need a different issue. But, we will point you to the documentation that tells you that we can't do anything about the rejections.

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Status: Active » Fixed

We can't provide an answer here, so marking as fixed.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.