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html – What can cause Chrome to give an net::ERR_FAILED on cached content against a server on localhost? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/07

On my research list [Wayback/Archive] html – What can cause Chrome to give an net::ERR_FAILED on cached content against a server on localhost? – Stack Overflow

The reason what that back then this would fail (but worked in Firefox and Safari, and because I was in a hurry I didn’t research further): [Wayback/Archive] https://www.office.com/

This site can’t be reached

The webpage at https://www.office.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

ERR_FAILED

Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Mason Wheeler and [Wayback/Archive] Joel Davey.

Details:

This is a custom server running on top of http.sys (no IIS), and it appears that things are getting cached by default and then failing to load from it on subsequent runs, but only when my server is running on localhost; on the Web, it works fine. As near as I can tell, net::ERR_FAILED is a generic “something went wrong and we’ve got no useful information for you” message in Chrome, so I’m kind of stuck here. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

There is only one way to get to the bottom of these types of error

In chrome use chrome://net-export/ in a tab, then record the session in another and debug with https://netlog-viewer.appspot.com/#import which allows you to view the output in a more readable format.

We recently found an ERR_FAILED down to the socket being closed because of a proxy authentication issue on the clients network.

This can also be useful reference once you’ve got the error code from the above chrome://network-errors/

Referenced:

Query: [Wayback/Archive] ERR_FAILED “www.office.com” Chrome MacOS – Google Search

--jeroen

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