Chrome network error · -320 · HTTP

ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE

The server sent an answer Chrome could not use as an HTTP response: broken headers, a wrong content length or garbage instead of a page.

Chromium's description

The server's response was invalid.

Chrome shows it as net::ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE, error -320. puppeteer and Playwright report the same name when a page fails to load in Chromium.

Common causes

  • A server or application error that writes output before or instead of the headers.
  • A PHP or other script that crashes halfway through.
  • A proxy or antivirus that alters the traffic.
  • A file served with broken compression or encoding.

How to fix ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE

  1. Reload and clear the cache and cookies of the site.
  2. Try another browser or network to rule out a local proxy.
  3. Site owners: check the response with curl -v and the server error logs.

ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE in the screenshot API

When the page itself fails to load with ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE, the API answers 502 with the message The target website could not be loaded (ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE). (target_unreachable). Not billed.

Only the page's own load can fail a render. An image, script or frame of the page that fails with a network error does not: the page is captured as the browser shows it without that resource.

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Frequently asked questions

What does ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE mean?

The server sent an answer Chrome could not use as an HTTP response: broken headers, a wrong content length or garbage instead of a page.

How do I fix ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE?

Reload and clear the cache and cookies of the site.

Is a screenshot that fails with ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE billed?

No. Requests the screenshot API answers with an error are not billed.

Other common errors

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