Hi Gaurav,
the correct call to the species match service is this:
http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/species/match?name=Hoolock+hoolock%E2%80%9D

I'm surprised it did work before, I don't think we changed the URL in this release.
We *did* finally do a new deploy though yesterday morning so you should see a slightly enhanced occurrence API now.

best,
Markus


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On 17 Jun 2014, at 02:52, Gaurav Vaidya <gaurav@ggvaidya.com> wrote:

Hi there!

Since around 2am MT last night (around 8am UTC), the /species?name=A API query has been down for me; I only get a server timeout with the request "http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/species?name=Hoolock+hoolock”, for example. I can still access other API services, such as “http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/species/search?q=Hoolock+hoolock”.

Any idea what’s going on?

cheers,
Gaurav