The most common cause of this error is an incorrect URL. It could also be caused by a slow connection or connectivity issues.

408 Request Timeout Errors

These error messages are often customized by each website, especially very large ones, so this error may present itself in more ways than these common ones:

408: Request TimeoutHTTP Error 408 - Request TimeoutThe Request Has Timed Out

The error displays inside the internet browser window, just as web pages do.

How to Fix the 408 Request Timeout Error

Errors Like 408 Request Timeout

The following messages are also client-side errors and so are somewhat related to the 408 Request Timeout error: 400 Bad Request, 401 Unauthorized, 403 Forbidden, and 404 Not Found. Several server-side HTTP status codes occasionally pop up, including 500 Internal Server Error. See all of them in our HTTP Status Code Errors list.