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title: 408 Timeout Responses (Legacy)
slug: cloud/legacy/408-timout-responses-legacy
docTags: 
createdAt: 2023-10-31T20:55:13.888Z
---

If your queries target large collections and match thousands of documents, you may recieve a `408 Request Timeout` response status code. For more information, see the official Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Web Docs > "[408 Request Timeout](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/408)" topic.

:::hint{type="info"}
To manage performance and prevent potential performance issues that may occur as a result to attempting to retrieve a large number of documents in a single query, by default, sets of matching documents is limited to a count of 1000. 
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To resolve this error, break down one large query into several selective queries. 

For example, the following cURL request:

- Retrieves documents within the `people` collection with the field property of `name` set to the value of `John`.
- Limits the number of results returned to `2`.
- Instructs to `sort` results by `_id` in ascending (`asc`) order.
- Indicates that the response is to include not only the values but also information (`latestValuesAndTypes`) about their types.

:::CodeblockTabs
cURL

```curl
curl -X POST 'https://{app_id}.cloud.ditto.live/api/v4/store/find' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY' \
  --data-raw '{
    "collection": "people",
    "query": "name==\'John\'",
    "limit": 2,
    "sort": [
      {"property": "_id", "direction": "asc"}
    ],
    "serializedAs": "latestValuesAndTypes"
}'
```
:::

Once invoked, you'd receive the following response:

:::CodeblockTabs
JSON

```json
{
  "value": {
    "_id": "123abc",
    "fields": {
      "name": {
          "register": { "value": "John" },
      },
      "friends": {
          "register": { "value": ["Susan"] },
      },
      "orderCount": {
          "counter": { "value": 5 }
      },
    }
  }
}
```
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