Troubleshoot

When working with shared contacts, you might encounter the following issues.

Firewall issues

If your firewall blocks HTTP PUT messages, include an X-HTTP-Method-Override: PUT header in a POST request. For more information, see Google Data API protocol basics.

If your firewall blocks HTTP DELETE messages, include an X-HTTP-Method-Override: DELETEheader in a POST request. For more information, see Google Data API protocol basics.

Limits

The following summarizes the constraints that apply to the Domain Shared Contacts API:

  • A single shared contact list can contain up to 200,000 entries.
  • A single shared contact can contain up to 2KB of data. The total XML that represents the shared contact can be larger than 2KB.
  • A response is truncated if it exceeds 10MB in length.
  • One batch request can include up to 100 operations.
  • Changes can take up to 24 hours to be reflected in the email address autocomplete and the contact manager.