The CancellationToken That Never Propagated: A Subtle ASP.NET Core Timeout Bug I

<p>Imagine a user sends a request to your API, but halfway through, they close the browser.</p> <p>Your server doesn't automatically know that the work is no longer needed. It

<p>When a .NET API works perfectly in staging and then falls over under real production load, the root cause is almost never a single catastrophic bug. It is usually a collection

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<p>I spent three weeks debugging an AI chatbot that kept timing out. It wasn't the API itself—it was how I was calling it. Here's what I learned.</p> <h2> The Problem </h2>

<h3> Apparently Contracts Should Be Honored </h3> <p>When I think of contracts, I think of scary documents that limit my freedom, usually in exchange for something I want.