Immich Android spams server endpoint even if it's down

[szmarczak]

The bug

0. Enable network speed icon in the notification bar on Android.
1. Set up Immich server.
2. Configure Immich on Android.
3. Record a video so long that it will take a while to upload.
4. Take the server down.
5. It still consumes lots (in my case, the entire 5 MB/s I have) of bandwidth.
6. Restart the app when the server is down and the same happens. It starts using lots of bandwidth even the server is down.

The OS that Immich Server is running on

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Version of Immich Server

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Version of Immich Mobile App

1.114.0

Platform with the issue

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

Your docker-compose.yml content

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Your .env content

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Reproduction steps

Above.

Relevant log output

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Additional information

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[szmarczak]

By "down" I mean gateway error, for example the proxy server failed to connect to host. CloudFlare is one of them.

[szmarczak]

I believe either it's ignoring the status code if the server returns it before reading the request, or it loops.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/100#put_request_with_100_continue

[bo0tzz]

Thanks for the report! Proper request backoffs is something that we should really add, yes.

[szmarczak]

I wouldn't mind retries as often as 1 second if it performed a health check first (I guess a minute or a few would work too but anything greater than 5 minutes would be an overkill). This way the bandwidth would be greatly reduced.

[szmarczak]

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