What is http response status of 508?

Question

On my website, when loading images/videos, sometimes I get errors in the console like:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 508 (Loop Detected)

What does this mean and how can I fix it?

Answer 1

You can look up the definition of any officially registered HTTP status code using the IANA status code registry at http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.xhtml, which would lead you to http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc5842.html#status.508.loop.detected.

In this case, it's also possible that somebody is misusing the status code for something else; does it come with a response body?

Answer 2

Try delays between each call, load a single link at a time from a single IP or use proxy.