Sharon, just to introduce myself. My name is Jim Jones, I’m a senior software engineer at Zvents (recently acquired by StubHub). We’re located in San Mateo, CA.
I am the author of the Ruby/Mechanical Turk integration gem, Turkee ( http://www.github.com/aantix/turkee ).
Recently I’ve run into an issue with the platform’s externalSubmit interface. I’ve posted the specifics here :
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=84581&tstart=0
My frustration lays with the fact that there is no way to accurately debug issues that arise with posting to the externalSubmit interface. All I receive is an ambiguous “Your request was not completed successfully”. This isn’t the first time I’ve run into this ambiguous error message.
Further complicating the issue, the above issue appeared to be inconsistent on my day-to-day debugging. One day it appeared to be length dependent, the next day those same