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Unable to log in #699
Description
Describe the bug
Whenever I try to log into my HS, I get an error:
Something went wrong: POST https://matrix.sw1v.org/_matrix/client/r0/keys/upload?: Failed to fetch.
To Reproduce
- log in
- wait
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- OS: linux
- Browser: chrome
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Additional context
The basic problem here is that the homeserver is returning 500s, because it's so busy sending out device list updates after the /login. So in many ways the root cause is matrix-org/synapse#7721.
However, Hydrogen could usefully keep retrying, or give the user a "try again" option, rather than the only option being to log out and start again.
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llwp commentedon Mar 4, 2022
Definitely a good ~feature suggestion imho.
bwindels commentedon Mar 9, 2022
Hmm, it's somewhat annoying that the server returns a 500 rather than a 429 if the client should retry, but can't immediately think of any downsides of also retrying (for all requests, not just /keys/upload) on 500... at least a few times otherwise you'd never find out about a potential genuine server error.
richvdh commentedon Mar 9, 2022
500 generally means "server failed to process this request". I'd say it's expected behaviour for any REST client to retry on a 500. More so than a 429.