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HTTP 522 – Connection Timed Out

(Cloudflare) Cloudflare could not negotiate a TCP handshake with the origin server in time.

Common use case

A common symptom of an overloaded origin server, an aggressive firewall silently dropping Cloudflare's IPs, or general network congestion between Cloudflare and the origin.

History

A Cloudflare-specific extension.

Did you know?

It is one of Cloudflare's most frequently reported errors, and Cloudflare's own troubleshooting docs specifically call out overly strict firewall rules as the top cause.