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bamboozled on Dec 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern V...

I’d accept this as an answer if I received a timeout or a message to say that.

Permission denied is something altogether because it implies the request reached an authorisation system, was evaluated and denied.

sbierwagen on Dec 11, 2021 [–]

Fail-secure + no separate error for timeouts maybe? If the server can't be reached then it just denies the request.

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