Okay, so the other day I was messing around with this app, and I kept getting this annoying “5 second violation” error. At first, I was like, “What the heck does that even mean?” I had no clue what was going on.
I started by poking around the app, trying different things to see if I could figure out what was triggering the error. I clicked every button, filled out every form, and basically just tried to break the thing in every way I could imagine.
After a while, I realized that the error only seemed to pop up when I was doing something that involved waiting for data. Like, if I clicked a button to load a list of items, and it took longer than 5 seconds, BAM! There’s the error.
So, I figured it must be some kind of timeout, right? Like, the app was giving up on waiting for the data after 5 seconds.
I went online and started searching for “5 second violation” and the name of the technology I thought the app was using(I am not good at them). Turns out,I am so bad at searching for correct words and finally got the answer.
- First, I checked the server logs. I wanted to see if the server was actually slow, or if it was something else. The logs looked okay, no major delays there.
- Then, I looked at the network traffic. I used the browser’s developer tools to see how long each request was taking. And there it was! Some of the requests were taking way longer than 5 seconds.
It wasn’t so bad at first.
The Solution (Kind Of)
In my case, I couldn’t directly fix the slow database queries (that’s someone else’s job!). But, I could at least make the app a little more user-friendly.I changed it before.
So, that’s my “5 second violation” story. It wasn’t exactly rocket science, but it was a good reminder that sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one. And, hey, I learned a little bit about timeouts and network debugging along the way!
