<p>UPDATE: Since the message appeared to me to be a timeout issue (I'm a mainframe programmer so I'm crash coursing on understanding thrown error messages on this paltform), I took a chance and simply re-submitted my compile.</p>
<p>It has now compiled SUCCESSFULLY!! Woohoo. I need small successes like this every now and then to keep the hope alive and trudge on.</p>

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2022-02-18T00:28:15.653Z
You should accept your own answer.
gRebel
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CryptoBoomer
<p>I need help.
Followed the lecture up to the compile.<br />
Got this failure :</p>
<pre><code>ConnectionError (HttpExceptionRequest Request { host = &quot;localhost&quot; port = 8080 secure = False requestHeaders = [(&quot;Accept&quot;,&quot;application/json;charset=utf-8,application/json&quot;),(&quot;Content-Type&quot;,&quot;application/json;charset=utf-8&quot;)] path = &quot;/runghc&quot; queryString = &quot;&quot; method = &quot;POST&quot; proxy = Nothing rawBody = False redirectCount = 10 responseTimeout = ResponseTimeoutDefault requestVersion = HTTP/1.1 proxySecureMode = ProxySecureWithConnect } **ResponseTimeout)**
</code></pre>

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English Auction Compilation Failure. Need help understanding the compile error message
# English Auction Compilation Failure. Need help understanding the compile error message

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-01-16)

I need help.
Followed the lecture up to the compile.
Got this failure :
ConnectionError (HttpExceptionRequest Request { host = "localhost" port = 8080 secure = False requestHeaders = [("Accept","application/json;charset=utf-8,application/json"),("Content-Type","application/json;charset=utf-8")] path = "/runghc" queryString = "" method = "POST" proxy = Nothing rawBody = False redirectCount = 10 responseTimeout = ResponseTimeoutDefault requestVersion = HTTP/1.1 proxySecureMode = ProxySecureWithConnect } **ResponseTimeout)**

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2022-01-16. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

UPDATE: Since the message appeared to me to be a timeout issue (I'm a mainframe programmer so I'm crash coursing on understanding thrown error messages on this paltform), I took a chance and simply re-submitted my compile.

It has now compiled SUCCESSFULLY!! Woohoo. I need small successes like this every now and then to keep the hope alive and trudge on.

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: You should accept your own answer.  

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