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What is the difference between a timeout and an HTTP 500 response? This Q&A focuses on interpreting the evidence before changing application or network settings.
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26525 reputation · 04 Mar 2025, 06:19 UTC
A timeout means a participant stopped waiting before it obtained the expected result; it may occur while connecting, sending or waiting for a response. An HTTP 500 is an actual response reporting a server-side failure. Correlate proxy and application logs before retrying a mutation. The absence of a response does not prove that the server performed no work, so use idempotency for operations that must not run twice.
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