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Make sure that your server accepts our user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2049.0 Safari/537.36 (i19s.com)
The size of your product data should not exceed 350 MB (unzipped). Of course, you can spread data over multiple data sources and then create separated connections for them.
Your product data system must be able to send the product data within one minute for download, otherwise the download will fail.
In case your product data cannot be reached more than three times in a row, the product data feed will be disabled.
If you use an FTP-server, it has to support the FTP
SIZE
command in order to check if the file changed before we download itThe system does not follow redirects, so your link should directly map to the data file
E-Tags
headers are not supported yet
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