How to Handle CAPTCHA API Timeouts: Distinguish Four Types of Timeouts, Then Decide Retries, Stop-Loss, and Submission Timing

CAPTCHA API timeouts are usually not a single network issue. They can occur at four independent stages: HTTP request, task polling, token validity, and automation client. This article explains how to identify which one from logs, and the respective timeout budgets, polling intervals, idempotent retries, error code stop-loss, immediate token submission, and callback instead of polling, with reference pseudocode and log field checklist.