Chrome network error · -162 · Connection

ERR_SOCKET_RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE_UNCHANGEABLE

Failed to set the socket's receive buffer size as requested, despite success return code from setsockopt.

Chromium's description

Failed to set the socket's receive buffer size as requested, despite success return code from setsockopt.

Chrome shows it as net::ERR_SOCKET_RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE_UNCHANGEABLE, error -162. puppeteer and Playwright report the same name when a page fails to load in Chromium.

ERR_SOCKET_RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE_UNCHANGEABLE in the screenshot API

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