Title: Unexpected response code: 0. Error: timeout
Last modified: June 18, 2026

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# Unexpected response code: 0. Error: timeout

 *  Resolved [mihpao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mihpao/)
 * (@mihpao)
 * [2 weeks, 6 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpected-response-code-0-error-timeout/)
 * i try to start a malware scanner and i get error:
 * An error
 * Unexpected response code: 0. Error: timeout
   Stage: file_system_analysis
 * What to do to fix it? max execution time is 600 and php memroy limit is 1024M

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 *  Plugin Support [denisxam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/denisxam/)
 * (@denisxam)
 * [2 weeks, 6 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpected-response-code-0-error-timeout/#post-18942167)
 * Hello!
   Thank you for your request.
 * Could you please contact your hosting provider and ask them to:
    1. Check Varnish is handling POST requests? and if processing disable.
    2. If it cannot be disabled, increase the following timeouts for Varnish to at 
       least 3 minutes:
 *  - first_byte_timeout
    - connect_timeout
    - between_bytes_timeout
 * After, please contact us with the details via our private ticket system:
 * [https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open](https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open)
 *  Plugin Support [Andrei CleanTalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blazirsky/)
 * (@blazirsky)
 * [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpected-response-code-0-error-timeout/#post-18946721)
 * Hello,
   We haven’t heard back from you in a few days, so I’m going to mark this
   topic as “resolved”. If you have any further questions, you can start a new topic
   or contact us via our private Ticket System: [https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open](https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open).

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 * Last activity: [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpected-response-code-0-error-timeout/#post-18946721)
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