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General·HTTP 504·API, CLI, FE

Gateway timeout

gateway_timeout

The request took too long and was stopped before it finished.

What this means​

A system behind the API did not answer in time. A change you asked for may or may not have been applied.

How to fix it​

For a read, try again. For a change, look at the resource first to see whether the change was applied, then send it again if it was not.

Retry behavior​

Safe to retry a read. Check before repeating a change.

How it appears in the response​

ComputeSphere returns errors as RFC 7807 Problem Details. The type field is the docs URL for this page — switch on code in your client.

{
  "type":    "https://docs.computesphere.com/errors/gateway_timeout",
  "title":   "Gateway timeout",
  "status":  504,
  "code":    "gateway_timeout",
  "detail":  "The request took too long and was stopped before it finished.",
  "instance": "/v2/…",
  "request_id": "f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479",
  "trace_id":   null
}

The Content-Type header is application/problem+json. On field-level validation errors a non-empty errors[] array also appears, each entry carrying its own docs_url for the offending field.