From d4a2384a5ec32100ec0c5e81f3cb326a510002f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justin Starry <justin@solana.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 13:14:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: graceful fallback when minimum balance request fails
 (#497)

---
 web3.js/src/connection.js | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/web3.js/src/connection.js b/web3.js/src/connection.js
index 02b4d12e41a3bd..5ab4387b27b4ac 100644
--- a/web3.js/src/connection.js
+++ b/web3.js/src/connection.js
@@ -699,7 +699,8 @@ export class Connection {
     );
     const res = GetMinimumBalanceForRentExemptionRpcResult(unsafeRes);
     if (res.error) {
-      throw new Error(res.error.message);
+      console.warn("Unable to fetch minimum balance for rent exemption");
+      return 0;
     }
     assert(typeof res.result !== 'undefined');
     return Number(res.result);