[Bug]: Discord Caching can prevent connection to the gateway

[ndelta0]

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Description

Discord could possibly cache an invalid response for the /gateway endpoint thus preventing the connection to the Gateway. Today at around 11 AM UTC Discord cached the following response for about 5 hours (depending on the geological location):

{
  "global": true,
  "message": "You are being rate limited.",
  "retry_after": 0.77
}

thus not getting the Gateway address and not being able to connect.

My recommendation would be to either:

• Try calling the gateway endpoint with a random query argument
• Always use the /gateway/bot endpoint which requires authentication and thus is not cached

Version

3.x

Working Version

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[ooliver1]

for reference discord.gg/developers#api-questions@gateway endpoint ratelimit issue

[quinchs]

seems to be resolved

[ooliver1]

it was resolved, this issue does not target that

this issue targets a future prevention on ~~if~~ when this happens another time

a good and future-proof fix would be to use /gateway/bot for the reason said in the issue body

[Misha-133]

Kind of a late update... Hey from 2023 The library uses /gateway/bot, so i'm closing this.