GMail is 704ing me

The idea with switching to GMail was to have rock-solid email, but nobody’s perfect I guess. I’ve been getting 704 errors for about 10 minutes this morning.

Are we spoiled yet?

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7 Responses to GMail is 704ing me

  1. Erik Abele says:
    May 11, 2006 at 1:59 pm

    Heh – the logo at the top still says ‘beta’ ;-)

  2. Yoav Shapira says:
    May 11, 2006 at 2:59 pm

    What’s a 704?? I figured it was an HTTP response code but I can’t seem to find it in the RFC (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html) ?

  3. Bertrand Delacretaz says:
    May 11, 2006 at 3:02 pm

    The way it was displayed in may browser (by GMail’s javascript code IIUC) made me believe that it is an HTTP result code (non-standard then?). I didn’t check at the protocol level though.

    Switching to the plain HTML view gave me a page saying “GMail is currently unavailable” but no HTTP error code.

  4. Ian Holsman says:
    May 11, 2006 at 11:39 pm

    Heh.
    I’ve spent all of last night trying to export my email from gmail into my Mail.app.
    I’m up to 24,800 messages (and it’s only up to Jan2006)

  5. juan says:
    May 29, 2006 at 8:08 pm

    704 means that they are making some changes to the code. sometimes it appears a new feature just after the 704, sometimes the feature remains hidden until it’s activated the google with a new change that will cause its 704. So you can be happy of them.

  6. luca says:
    June 16, 2006 at 1:15 pm

    704:
    “Server Error

    Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.”

  7. Sarah says:
    July 12, 2006 at 4:48 pm

    Gmail has been 704ing me . . .what does it mean?

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