I have expect success set to true when initializing this client, but still getting this error. What...

# multiplatform

[Horatio Thomas]

I have expect success set to true when initializing this client, but still getting this error. What can be causing this? I suspect it has to do with the timeout duration so I increased that. Also what are the best practices with handling errors using ktor-client in multiplatform?

[Jack Boswell]

That's the stacktrace, what's the exception and message?

[Horatio Thomas]

This is what I'm getting on the play store console. Same issue I believe

[Jack Boswell]

Ah ClientRequestException, that's thrown when you have expectSuccess = true and you receive a 4XX status code

[Jack Boswell]

So you should either do expectSuccess = false and check whether the response was success, or keep expectSuccess = true and catch any potential exceptions

[Jack Boswell]

Incidentally, there's also RedirectResponseException for 3XX and ServerResponseException for 5XX, it might pay to handle those too

[Horatio Thomas]

I see, I was getting some 499 so I think it may have to do with the timeout

[Jack Boswell]

499 isn't a standard code, you'd have to check your server docs or something to figure the cause out

[Horatio Thomas]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#:~:text=499%20Client%20Closed%20Request

[Jack Boswell]

notable non-standard

I think nginx uses it sometimes?

[Jack Boswell]

Here's a list of only standard ones
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status