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asyncio.exceptions.TimeoutError: Request timed out

ID: python/starlette-request-client-timeout

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80%Fix Rate
82%Confidence
0Evidence
2024-03-20First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
3.x active — — —

Root Cause

The server takes longer than the client's timeout to respond, often due to slow database queries or external API calls within the endpoint.

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中文

服务器响应时间超过客户端超时时间，通常因为端点内的数据库查询或外部API调用缓慢。

Workarounds

  1. 90% success 
    Optimize the endpoint by adding caching, using async database drivers, or offloading heavy tasks to background workers.
  2. 85% success 
    Implement server-side timeouts and return a 504 Gateway Timeout if the operation takes too long.

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. 80% fail

    Increasing client timeout doesn't fix the root cause; the server still processes slowly.

  2. 70% fail

    Retrying the request may eventually succeed but is inefficient and can overload the server.