network.WIZNET5K error handling; Was I doing something wrong?

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I was using the last build from last year for the Wiznet W5500-EVB-Pico

Every time I get a network error (eg: BadStatusLine) the PICO crashes/hard locks without errors in Thonny

import network
import urequests
# https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/ports/rp2/boards/W5500_EVB_PICO
nic = network.WIZNET5K()
nic.active(True)
nic.ifconfig()
nic.ifconfig("dhcp")
urequests.get("http://10.0.0.69:8080/die.php")#<?php die("OK"); ?>

If anythings goes wrong there is no output in thonny and try/except does not work on it, this makes debugging a nightmare

Now when I switched wiznet's build: v2.0.0 firmware.uf2

import network
import urequests
from machine import Pin,SPI
# https://github.com/Wiznet/RP2040-HAT-MicroPython/blob/main/Ethernet%20Example%20Getting%20Started%20%5BMicropython%5D.md#sample-code
nic = network.WIZNET5K(SPI(0,2_000_000, mosi=Pin(19),miso=Pin(16),sck=Pin(18)),Pin(17),Pin(20))
nic.active(True)
nic.ifconfig()
nic.ifconfig("dhcp")
urequests.get("http://10.0.0.69:8080/die.php")#<?php die("OK"); ?>

Now if a error occurs I do get a error in Thonny and try/except does work on it

This is the ugly code I ended up using to make a network request, at this pint i do not know if r.close()/r=None accomplish anything but I do not want to deal with it

def http(page,data=False,err=False):
	#return print("Simulation mode: ",page)
	if not err:
		page="http://10.0.0.69:8080/"+page
		print("URL =",page,"DATA =",data)
	if not GPIO.nic.isconnected():
		print("----------NO NETWORK-------")
		return False
	try:
		if not data:
			r=urequests.get(page)
		else:
			r=urequests.post(page,data=json_encode(data),headers={"Content-type":"application/json"})
	except BadStatusLine:
		#No idea why my server does this sometimes, line is returned as []
		# PHP script was outputting `die(json_encode($json));`
		print("ERROR: BadStatusLine; Ignore")
		r.close()
		r=None
		return True
	except Exception as e:
		print("ERROR:",e)
		if not err:
			#only try twice
			time.sleep_ms(500)
			return http(page,data,True)
		else:
			return False
	if r.status_code == 200 and r.content==b"OK":
		r.close()
		r=True
	else:
		print(page,':',r.status_code,"-",r.content)
		r.close()
		r=False
	return r