media:content/@url points to the wrong server - mountain - com.googlegroups.google-picasa-data-api

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mountain	28 Apr 2008 03:43
Sven	28 Apr 2008 09:09

Subject:	media:content/@url points to the wrong server
From:	mountain (rich...@gmail.com)
Date:	04/28/2008 03:43:13 AM
List:	com.googlegroups.google-picasa-data-api

When I read my feed "http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/ richard.de.zwart/album/China2008?kind=photo" , the third entry has this for a url:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/richard.de.zwart/SBOGJ4uYK_I/AAAAAAAAADU/t287r2ontsc/s72/PengZwarteBroek.jpg

It comes from media:thumbnail/@url, and that works fine, so I can display the thumbnail on my page. I want to link to the original image so I take media:content/@url :

http://lh3.ggpht.com/richard.de.zwart/SBOGJ4uYK_I/AAAAAAAAADU/t287r2ontsc/PengZwarteBroek.jpg

When I follow that link I get a Google Error Not Found. When I change the lh3 part in the url to lh6 I do get the image! Looks like some load-balancing that is not working properly. A few moments later, the original URL might work, than a few moments later it fails again.