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502 = bad gateway (php-fpm problems, etc.)

Does googlebot consider them 503? (503 = server overloaded & try again later)

Naomi
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google supports HTTP 502

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40132

and treats them as

502 (Bad gateway)

The server was acting as a gateway or proxy and received an invalid 
response from the upstream server.

in my experience google treats 502 as downtime and stops hammering your server for some (short) time.

Franz Enzenhofer
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