Eli5: Why do some video players (Youtube, Netflix etc.) have problems with loading a video, only for it to be solved on a reload of the website?
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There are a few ways this could happen. A common one is timeouts. If you request something from a website and it starts taking too long, a lot of websites will just cancel it so the server doesn’t get overwhelmed. The timeout might be something like 10 seconds, and sometimes, when the server is busy, maybe it’s taking anywhere from 9-11 seconds to retrieve your data, so you might just get lucky or unlucky.
There are also errors that are transient. The programmers should fix these, but they’re so rare, that they may be difficult to track down and fix. Like, maybe the request fails because you tried to get it the exact millisecond something else happened.
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