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Books POST API may timeout on long list of ISBNs #831

Open cgorringe opened 2 years ago

cgorringe commented 2 years ago

The context Books POST API may timeout on Wikipedia pages that have a large number of ISBNs. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II may have 228 or 231 ISBNs.

When a timeout occurs, the API returns this error:

<html><body><h1>504 Gateway Time-out</h1>
The server didn't respond in time.
</body></html>

Either this may be solved on the backend, or an enhancement made to the frontend code to limit number of ISBNs sent to the API at a time. Let's say we send 100, then call the API again after each batch. May take some effort to rewrite the code.

applies to v2.999.28

cgorringe commented 2 years ago

Extending the timeout on the server endpoint fixes this issue for now.