# Handling "Type IOError has no field status" with some delay
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/handling-type-ioerror-has-no-field-status-with-some-delay/43369
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [July 20, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/handling-type-ioerror-has-no-field-status-with-some-delay/43369 "2020-07-20T12:22:47Z")
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### Author:  [@Nash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nash)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/handling-type-ioerror-has-no-field-status-with-some-delay/43369/1 "2020-07-20T12:22:47Z")
I make regular calls to an API. Sometimes the call results in the error “type IOError has no field status”. Rather than my script stopping, I would like to handle that error and permit the script to continue.
What is the best way to handle the stated error, if I am interested in the script waiting some time before attempting again?
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### Author:  [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/handling-type-ioerror-has-no-field-status-with-some-delay/43369/2 "2020-07-20T12:53:23Z")
You probably want a `try/catch` block:
[https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/control-flow/#The-try/catch-statement-1](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/control-flow/#The-try/catch-statement-1)
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### Author:  [@Henrique\_Becker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Henrique_Becker)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/handling-type-ioerror-has-no-field-status-with-some-delay/43369/3 "2020-07-20T13:14:58Z")
> type IOError has no field status
This is a very strange error of the API. It seems like it has thrown a IOError for some reason, captured the error, and tried to access a nonexistent field in the IOError, as it was expecting other type of error object in that context and did not check if the raised error was of the expected type.