gateway: make it easier to retry from HTML error page for 504 Timeouts #427
Labels
kind/enhancement
A net-new feature or improvement to an existing feature
need/triage
Needs initial labeling and prioritization
topic/gateway
Issues related to HTTP Gateway
Problem
When we timeout, gateway shows non-actionable error that says "context deadline expired".
The
text/html
response returned to browser users is not much better, just prettier.Very often refreshing page again will succeed, but users do not know that.
Solution
We should make
text/html
responses for HTTP 504 errors actionable.Initial ideas
window.location.reload()
?)<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60"/>
which will automatically refresh the tab after 1 minute (this way if someone left page loading, and it errored, it may self-heal before user is back to notice the error)The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: