Cytoscape plugin of genemania called via command-line times out

[Niveda-S]

There are cases when I get the following message when I use a protein list while running the cytoscape plugin of genemania command-line:
'status': 500, 'type': 'urn:cytoscape:ci:cyrest-core:v1:handle-json-command:errors:2', 'message': 'connect timed out'

This error seems to be arbitrary as re-running the same command line statement for the same protein list produces the necessary results. Please let me know if there is another explanation for this.

I use the following command line to execute genemania:

body = dict(attrLimit='10', geneLimit='20', genes=names, organism='9606')
get_genemania = requests.post('http://localhost:1234/v1/commands/genemania/search', json=body)

where names is a list of protein ids separated by '|'