Fail gracefully on account creation timeout (#10121)

* Fail gracefully on account creation timeout

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Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: jimchamp

openlibrary/accounts/model.py

@@ -665,16 +665,22 @@ def create(
         _screenname = screenname
         attempt = 0
         while True:
-            response = cls.xauth(
-                'create',
-                email=email,
-                password=password,
-                screenname=_screenname,
-                notifications=notifications,
-                test=test,
-                verified=verified,
-                service='openlibrary',
-            )
+            try:
+                response = cls.xauth(
+                    'create',
+                    email=email,
+                    password=password,
+                    screenname=_screenname,
+                    notifications=notifications,
+                    test=test,
+                    verified=verified,
+                    service='openlibrary',
+                )
+            except requests.HTTPError as err:
+                status_code = err.response.status_code
+                if status_code == 504:
+                    raise OLAuthenticationError("request_timeout")
+                raise OLAuthenticationError("undefined_error")
 
             if response.get('success'):
                 ia_account = cls.get(email=email)
@@ -723,6 +729,9 @@ def xauth(cls, op, test=None, s3_key=None, s3_secret=None, xauth_url=None, **dat
             params['developer'] = test
 
         response = requests.post(url, params=params, json=data)
+        if response.status_code == 504 and op == "create":
+            response.raise_for_status()
+
         try:
             # This API should always return json, even on error (Unless
             # the server is down or something :P)

openlibrary/i18n/messages.pot

@@ -7715,6 +7715,12 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "Login attempted with invalid Internet Archive s3 credentials."
 msgstr ""
 
+#: account.py
+msgid ""
+"Servers are experiencing unusually high traffic, please try again later "
+"or email openlibrary@archive.org for help."
+msgstr ""
+
 #: account.py
 msgid "A problem occurred and we were unable to log you in"
 msgstr ""

openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py

@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ def get_login_error(error_key):
         "invalid_s3keys": _(
             'Login attempted with invalid Internet Archive s3 credentials.'
         ),
+        "request_timeout": _(
+            "Servers are experiencing unusually high traffic, please try again later or email openlibrary@archive.org for help."
+        ),
         "undefined_error": _('A problem occurred and we were unable to log you in'),
     }
     return LOGIN_ERRORS[error_key]