503 would mean its a issue to related to the server itself or the code you wrote ig. The digest is a code which you can use to find the appropriate logs relating to the error inside the server logs(this is NOT your browser console log)

The route handlers return a response and you can simply specify the error you want to thrown inside them for ex:

new NextResponse.json({error: "error message here"}, {status:503});

You can then throw the error using throw directly where you are receiving the response.

this is a known limitation of the app router

For server components?

yes

questions requesting non-200 status codes for not found and error pages are common here and in the repo issue tracker

and the answer has been universally 'no it's impossible'

this is due to streaming

when you throw the error on the server, the stream has already happened

the response is already returned to the browser

Hmm... but it should work on client components iirc.

so the status cannot be changed

for pages in general, server or client

if you can, please make an example of non-200 for a page.tsx route involving client components

for route.ts, it's very easy to use custom response status

but for pages, it's impossible get 4xx or 5xx

thank you

i've tried everything to achieve 503 but no success

yeah i think this is a fundamental limitation of the app router that is very hard to fix

i use custom server to catch errors but it seems that nextjs somehos catches errors and not forwards further

since the app router uses streaming on a fundamental level, this is pretty much impossible to fix even in the future

yeah nextjs catches all of those errors, there is a error boundary catcher for everything

it is strange - why it is not solved when it seems to be obvious 🙂

to return 503 when error occurs

we cache 200 statuses and not cache 50x

it's due to this

so when anything happens in application and 200 with digest occures we cache it with no information it is error

the moment you send a request to the server, the server returns back a streaming response with 200. that happens before the server knows there is an error so you cannot change the response status afterwards

You should still get a digest.

That digest can be used to find the error in the server logs.

well you will have to refactor this step. a lot.

because you can't rely on the headers and status to see if you should cache it now

yes i know but 200 pages are cached - they acnnot revalidate asap

so solution is to parse response, find if there is "digest" phrase inside and not cache then? 😄 strange 😄

also the notion of error in nextjs is not even clear anymore. if there are two parts of the page, one part works and one part throws, is it a 500? if one part is not-found and one part throws, is it 404 or 500? it's unclear

that's just how the app router is designed

i think you're supposed to use their native caching mechanisms

rather than make your own cache because as you see it cannot integrate well with the system

their four levels of caching actually play with this very well. for example if you use ISR and the route error'd, the fallback data if any will be used

caching on next side is also not good solution

when we have cloud and many instances of application

cache will be need stored on every instance

or maybe there is another solution to tell next to use redis or something like this to cache?

a workaround could be this

in all error.tsx you have, you add a meta tag to signal that there has been an error

in your caching mechanism, you parse the html response and find that meta tag. if there is, don't cache

but we still have problem with setting cache even i set revalidate = 300 or other option it returns not cached version

this is similar to the digest parsing above but obviously safer; you cannot just parse the html to find the word "digest"

you are right it could be better but similar of course