Comment 2 for bug 1554801

I confirm the issue with the download of the Dropbox-hosted file (which I just fixed by moving the file elsewhere - it happened out of the blue after having worked ok for probably 3 years..).

But Variety is made to work whether or not fetching this file succeeds, and it did work perfectly OK on my machine, even with the 460 and later on 429 error. It tries up to 5 times, about 30-40 seconds apart, during which you get the exception, and then Variety gives up, does not try to fetch it anymore, and uses sensible defaults instead.

Apart from the logged error (which is not severe in this case), did you see any reduced functionality?