What does HTTP status 408 (Request Timeout) mean?

 
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The timeout is about the inbound request, not the time spent executing application code. A server can close the connection after 408 because it no longer expects the remaining request bytes.

Check slow clients, idle keep-alive connections, upload rate, reverse-proxy read timeouts, and network interruptions. Retrying is appropriate only after confirming that the request was not processed.

A server can close an idle or incomplete request with 408 when the client does not deliver the full message within its timeout. Distinguish this from a 504, where a gateway timed out waiting for an upstream. Check client upload progress, slow links, request framing, and any proxy timeout that acts before the origin.

RFC 9110: HTTP Semantics


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