topic Re: Good way to guard against Esri js api CDN being down? in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375862#M34890 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Would still be nice to have a way to code defensively against the api not loading , regardless of where it is being served from. Might be nice to even have it try a backup locale if the initial is not working.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:59:59 GMT KevinGooss 2012-10-31T16:59:59Z Good way to guard against Esri js api CDN being down? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375858#M34886 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Anyone know of a good way to defensively code against Esri's host being down for the js api (like today)?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I would rather have my site fail gracefully but don't really know how to handle that.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>right now it just hangs and i get firebug errors eventually about dojo is not defined.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:40:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375858#M34886 KevinGooss 2012-10-29T18:40:08Z Re: Good way to guard against Esri js api CDN being down? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375859#M34887 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The api can be hosted locally.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Never had the issue, but yes, today I do...Don't know how to test for their api availability. I have used esri.request to try to get json callback to test and trap for map service availability.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:54:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375859#M34887 LeeHarding 2012-10-29T18:54:45Z Re: Good way to guard against Esri js api CDN being down? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375860#M34888 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I seem to recall around the 2.0 days when we wanted to host it locally you had to contact esri and they would send you a dvd and it was an installation process on your server.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>That seems like overkill when you consider it is really just a text file is it not?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:13:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375860#M34888 KevinGooss 2012-10-29T19:13:07Z Re: Good way to guard against Esri js api CDN being down? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375861#M34889 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>It is downloadable from ESRI:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/help/jshelp/intro_accessapi.html">http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/help/jshelp/intro_accessapi.html</A></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:42:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375861#M34889 BrandonHerrington 2012-10-29T19:42:54Z Re: Good way to guard against Esri js api CDN being down? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375862#M34890 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Would still be nice to have a way to code defensively against the api not loading , regardless of where it is being served from. Might be nice to even have it try a backup locale if the initial is not working.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:59:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375862#M34890 KevinGooss 2012-10-31T16:59:59Z Re: Good way to guard against Esri js api CDN being down? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375863#M34891 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Someone shared this on twitter the other day when the API went down.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>This example uses jQuery, but could be applied to any CDN library that you also want to host locally.</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1014203/best-way-to-use-googles-hosted-jquery-but-fall-back-to-my-hosted-library-on-go/1014251#1014251">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1014203/best-way-to-use-googles-hosted-jquery-but-fall-back-to-my-hosted-library-on-go/1014251#1014251</A></BODY></HTML> Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:10:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/good-way-to-guard-against-esri-js-api-cdn-being/m-p/375863#M34891 ReneRubalcava 2012-10-31T18:10:49Z